Subsequent to his confirmation hearings in January, Secretary of Defense James Mattis provided unpublished written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Excerpts from this testimony were provided to ProPublica1…
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The US Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It has subsequently been amended several times to expand its…
Recently federal Employment Minister Michaelia Cash was pinged for not declaring a mortgage on a $1.4 million investment property for almost four months and finally made the disclosure only after…
The Q Society and the anti-Halal campaigner, Kirralie Smith, agreed today to make a public apology and have made an out-of-court settlement over the defamation case brought against them by…
Currently, of the 50 states, in 32 states the state legislature has primary responsibility for ‘redistricting’, often subject to the approval by the state governor. Seven states only have an…
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process – was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.
Archbishop Christopher Prowse has stated1 that traditional views on marriage and the sanctity of human life have been marginalised by a new orthodoxy. This is hypocritical coming from the local…
John Howard, in front of a corporate audience at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia lunch in Sydney last Friday, has identified why Donald Trump won the US presidency!…
It is easy to blame subeditors for many of the laughable headlines that appear in Newspapers, one of my favourites is: ‘Student is excited dad got head job’. It is…