Political news and analysis from the ACT and Federal Parliaments
LOOKING back on the federal politics of 2018, voters can conclude they’ve been given a rough trot. What’s been dubbed “the permanent election campaign” to which we are subjected these days is a curse. Too […]
IT took disgraced Nationals MP Andrew Broad 24 hours after the “sugar baby” story broke to announce the inevitable – that he won’t recontest his Victorian seat of Mallee. They do things slowly in the […]
“The strategy ignores almost everything that the community has told the government about its housing choices and will in fact deliver the exact opposite of what the community asked for.
FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd has used an address to the Labor national conference to deliver a fresh swingeing attack on the Murdoch media, declaring “it is not a news organisation, it is a political […]
VICTORIAN Nationals MP Andrew Broad has been forced to quit as assistant minster to Deputy Michael McCormack after extraordinary claims about his exchanges with a young woman he met through a “seeking arrangement” website […]
YESTERDAY (December 16) Scott Morrison announced that NSW Governor David Hurley will become Australia’s next Governor-General, succeeding Sir Peter Cosgrove. The Prime Minister timed his news conference in Canberra with the governor-general designate to coincide […]
IN this week’s Newspoll 55 per cent believed Labor would win next year’s election, compared with just 24 per cent who thought the Coalition would. These are figures to frighten Scott Morrison, and make Bill […]
IN the topsy turvy Liberal universe, just when the right is trying to tighten its grip on the throat of the party, the government is haring off to the left, with this week’s legislation to […]
THE government’s bid to legislate this year to protect LGBT students from discrimination at religious schools has failed because of an impasse over the detail. After weeks of negotiation and tactical manoeuvring between the government […]
IF anyone needs further evidence of the self-defeating weird places the Liberals seem to find themselves in, consider what happened on Tuesday. Malcolm Turnbull made another intervention in the political debate, this time talking about […]
“The ACT has provided serious leadership in setting goals and targets to address climate change,” writes political columnist MICHAEL MOORE
REBEL right wing Liberal Craig Kelly is a paradox – a man who chronically lacks the numbers but possesses the power to force prime ministers to protect him. On Monday, fresh from a G20 where […]
SCOTT Morrison faces a major Liberal party crisis after Malcolm Turnbull moved to torpedo the Prime Minister’s plan to protect the preselection of controversial rightwing backbencher Craig Kelly. Morrison wants the NSW Liberal executive to […]
WHEN a prime minister has diminished authority, people don’t bother so much with the niceties. Scott Morrison admitted on Wednesday that Julia Banks had not given him notice of her intention to announce in parliament […]
THE government has been delivered a fresh major blow with the defection of Victorian backbencher Julia Banks to the crossbench, delivering a swingeing attack on the right of the Liberal party. In an emotional speech, […]
“Emasculating an integrity commission says more about the approach of the Barr government than any mismanagement or bullying of the past. It is unconscionable.
WHATEVER it does, the Morrison government seems to find itself caught on the sticky fly paper. As if it didn’t have trouble enough with trying to decide about the embassy in Israel and the religious […]
LABOR has maintained a 55-45 per cent two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, in a weekend of woe for the Morrison government, which is trying to play down the federal contribution to the Victorian Liberal […]
HOURS before Bill Shorten delivered his energy policy on Thursday (November 22), Scott Morrison’s office had circulated an attack. Labor’s plan was for a “carbon tax”; the proposed subsidy for “pink batteries” would leave households […]
A LABOR government would subsidise households to install batteries as part of the ALP’s energy policy to be unveiled by Bill Shorten today (November 22). If Labor wins next year’s election, it would provide from […]
A HONDA Jazz was deliberately sideswiped by a car, which allegedly drove onto the wrong side of the road in a road rage incident on Monday (January 7). The Honda was travelling northbound on William Hovell […]
TWO areas where bushfires were started by lightning in the ACT yesterday (January 18) are being monitored by the ACT Emergency Services at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Mount Gingera, west of Corrin Dam The fire at Tidbinbilla […]
IT was a “near-miss” at an accident site this afternoon (Friday, January 18) when a vehicle, which is of interest to police, sped through a road block, putting people in danger. A motorcycle officer, who […]
A SEVERE thunderstorm predicted to hit Canberra this afternoon will likely produce damaging winds, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Braidwood, Goulburn, Cooma and Yass also might be affected. ACT emergency services says Canberrans can […]
PROF Ken Lampl’s move back to teaching and composition is entirely of his own volition, “CityNews” discovered this afternoon in an exclusive interview with the head of the School of Music, who will step down […]
