Forget gender and ethnicity, our parliament isn’t even representative of our vote
In the last federal House of Representatives election, the Coalition collectively got 42.04% of the first preference vote, Labor got 34.73% and the Greens got […]
In the last federal House of Representatives election, the Coalition collectively got 42.04% of the first preference vote, Labor got 34.73% and the Greens got […]
Anyone who has followed the toxic climate change debate over the last decade must be questioning their sanity after the Coalition’s media blitz announcing their […]
Back in 2014, a confident Julie Bishop, buoyed by a substantive win at the 2013 election, took to the lectern at the National Press Club […]
According to just about every journalist, commentator, and Liberal/National politician, the Coalition are better economic managers. Crap. Pretty much every problem we have can be […]
From the second the Coalition formed government, they have been using their position to shower largesse on themselves, their friends and donors. The tone was […]
As Scott Morrison ramps up his new image as our strong protector, the only one with the “mettle” to save us from the evil that […]
When it was revealed last year that taxpayers had shelled out more than $825 million on lawyers in 2016-17, Attorney-General Christian Porter said he was […]
Whilst we all bemoan the greed and power of corporations and the damage that the relentless pursuit of profit can cause, or the division that […]
A few observations from Monday’s Senate Estimates hearings: Ministers Michaelia Cash and Michael Keenan both declined two requests from the AFP to be interviewed and […]
The last five years of government in this country have been characterised by the greatest waste of time and money in our history, a debasing […]
It’s one thing for the Coalition to blame Labor and the Greens for everything – that’s just politics, as ProMo would say – but it’s […]
Labor finally found enough courage to actually remember we are dealing with people when we talk about the folk living in Hotel California (you can […]
There have always been incidents of nepotism, rorting, broken promises, moral failures, poor decisions, and even straight out lies, in politics. So why does it […]
It seems astonishing that, in a country where one in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, and many […]
Broadly speaking, the coming federal election seems to be coalescing around three main issues. Young people particularly see climate change as the defining issue. They […]
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