The Wrong Government For The Times And The End Of Neoliberalism
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Coronavirus, Conventions Smashed, Turning Of The Tide Against Morrison
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The new normal of scandal, viruses and racism
Another week, another scandal. This seems to be the ‘new normal’ for this term of Parliament, with the revelation of more government impropriety in the lead up to the federal election in May 2019.
How the OTIS group did Albanese a favour
The OTIS group of disgruntled federal Labor politicians has helped Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese in a number of ways they probably didn’t intend.
A short history of LNP corruption: When too much just isn’t enough
It’s hard to keep a tab on the current deluge of corruption coming out of federal politics, and barely a day goes by where there isn’t a new report of malfeasance by the Liberal–National government.
But
there’s so much corruption being carried out by the government that it’s so
hard to know where to start and, unfortunately for the public, it’s hard to
know when it will all stop.
Here’s a
short history:
Water for sale
NBN latest: Oh dear, what can the matter be?
You know the tune, so let’s all sing along: Oh dear, what can the matter be? Or, if you prefer Barnsie, “Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap”. As we approach the NBN’s nominal completion date of June this year, the decision to dump 21st century fibre and cobble something together using old copper wires and run-down pay television cables has left too many Australians humming a very sad tune.
The New Year Of Political Corruption And Solutions For Parliamentary Reform
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Divided Opinions
The New Politics analysis of the 2019 year in Australian politics.
Eddy Jokovich and David Lewis, 338 pages. Released 2020
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The burning world of climate change denial
In 1969, a Union Oil drilling platform ten kilometres off the coast of Santa Barbara, a small tourist town in California, had a drilling hole blow-out and, over the next ten days, eight million litres of oil sludge spilt into the ocean, most of it landing on nearby beaches.
Another nail in the coffin for democracy
In January this year, Scott Morrison said environmental
legislation to protect native species was one of his government’s top
priorities, and said “we already introduced and passed legislation through the
Senate actually dealing with that very issue, we’ve been taking action on that”.
A minor problem though: no such legislation existed, nor was there any
legislative schedule to remotely support this claim. Morrison just lied.