A secretive parliamentary day in Canberra
Yet another riveting day in Parliament Question time, replete with insane Dorothy Dix questions from Government MPs, and relentless questions from Labor about the broadband [>>>]
Month: February 2018
Dumbing down the ABC and the future of journalism
There was a clear case of selective economic interpretation in Parliament last week, where the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, castigated the ABC’s senior economics editor, [>>>]
The affair that stopped the nation and brought it to its knees
It was the affair that almost stopped the nation, as well as almost stopping the government. Will Barnaby Joyce still be the Deputy Prime Minister [>>>]
There’s no case for a corporate tax cut when one in five of Australia’s top companies don’t pay it
There is no compelling evidence that giving the country’s biggest companies a tax cut sees that money passed on to workers in the form of [>>>]
Turnbull rules out sex but the corruption is still in place
I was hoping today was going to be Barnaby-Joyce-free day but, in the current climate, that was never going to be possible. Especially when Joyce [>>>]
The $65 billion company tax cut no-one is asking for
It has been difficult to focus on other matters in federal politics – and that’s understandable, given we’ve got the Deputy Prime Minister and leader [>>>]
Goodbye Barnaby, your corruption is not wanted
Tonight, Barnaby Joyce is under strong pressure to resign from his position as Deputy Prime Minister, and from Parliament, after a meeting with senior National [>>>]
Widening the gap in Indigenous affairs
Is it any surprise the 2017 Closing the Gap report, released today, shows that in four of the seven key areas, Australia is still lagging [>>>]
Barnaby Joyce and the failure of mainstream media
Well, what a week in federal politics. Not so much about the revelations about the affairs of the Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, but the [>>>]