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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
AUSTRALIA’s federal Minister for Women, Kelly O’Dwyer, yesterday (November 20) unveiled a range of modest initiatives in a four-year $109 million “women’s economic security” package. It includes A$54.8 million to boost workforce participation, A$35.6 million […]
WHEN Scott Morrison parachuted into the prime ministership, he was anxious to remove outstanding barnacles quickly. Now that he’s foolishly created one of his own, he needs to bring a similar sense of urgency to […]
A TWO-year-old was allegedly left in an unattended vehicle in Yass for about six hours yesterday (February 20). Police were called to the vehicle, which was parked at a child care centre, just after 3pm. […]
FAMILY and police have concerns for the wellbeing of teenager Janelle Paz who has been missing since Saturday, February 16. The 16-year-old was last seen at her home in Ngunnawal at about 1.30pm. Police and Janelle’s […]
A MAN was knocked unconscious in Griffith after a fight broke out between his colleague and three unknown men. It was about 1am on Saturday, December 22, when three men and the colleague began fighting […]
MORE than 180 cannabis plants were found in a Downer home yesterday (Tuesday, February 19). Canberra police searched the home at about 3pm and found 182 cannabis plants, about 300 cannabis seeds and about two kilograms […]
MATHIAS Cormann’s 2018 family holiday in Singapore is costing him a good deal more than the $2780.82 he belatedly paid for airfares booked with Helloworld travel company’s CEO who happened to be the Liberal party […]
