I have voted for the Greens for several years in Federal and State elections because they seemed like an economically and socially progressive party largely in tune with my views…
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The lobbying organisation, the Business Council of Australia, in a desperate move to try to convince some cross-bench members of the senate to pass the government’s cut to the corporate…
Peter van Onselen, professor of politics at the University of Western Australia is giving a presentation (on 22/3/2018) at Griffith University, based on an abstract entitled ‘The decline of the…
A few days ago, the Labor Party released a policy which would stop the Commonwealth handing out cheques for excess franking credits to those who have arranged their tax affairs…
There are several definitions of homelessness, but they tend to include ‘rooflessness’ (primary homelessness) where people are sleeping on the streets or in improvised dwellings, and ‘houselessness’, where people are…
As I made clear last month, Treasurer Scott Morrison was lying by omission regarding the supposedly uncompetitive corporate tax rate in Australia. This was because he omitted to mention franking…
The organisation known as Transparency International is a non-profit international organisation founded in 1993 and based in Berlin. Its aim is to combat global corruption and to prevent criminal activities…
The mind-boggling behaviour of Barnaby Joyce seems like it might be politically terminal. Firstly, in playing away from home and impregnating his staffer, he argued that such a sequence of…
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop does not live with her ‘boyfriend’, the pharmacist, winery owner and property developer David Panton, so she does not call him her ‘partner’, just like Barnaby…
It is difficult to know where to start with an essay on Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Michaelia Cash, without going from essay to treatise. However, I will largely…
