Category: Australian Politics

Australian Politics

Cory Bernardi Slammed After Directing Followers To ‘Pro Rape’ Blogger – New Matilda

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has been inundated with criticism after apparently directing Twitter followers to the website of men’s activist and ‘pickup artist’ Daryush ‘Roosh’ Valizadeh, a self-described “chauvinist” blogger who infamously published an article arguing rape should be legalised on private property. “This article is particularly relevant to many Twitter users. Know thyself…,” Bernardi tweeted,More

Source: Cory Bernardi Slammed After Directing Followers To ‘Pro Rape’ Blogger – New Matilda

Australian Politics, Panama Papers

Day to Day Politics: The average punter wouldn’t know. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Day to Day Politics: The average punter wouldn’t know. Friday 13 May So much happens ‘day to day’ in an election campaign. How much of it gets through to the average punter? How much permeates their minds and leaves such an indelible impression that it affects the way they vote? Take this week, for example.…

Source: Day to Day Politics: The average punter wouldn’t know. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Day to Day Politics: Budget blues bullshit, and blunders. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Friday 6 May 2016 You would think that a Prime Minister and his Treasurer who are proposing to cut company tax to 25% over the next ten years would have some idea of what the cost to the taxpayer might be. But no. When the PM was asked in an interview with David Speers on…

Source: Day to Day Politics: Budget blues bullshit, and blunders. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

GetUp raises ghost of Abbott past with campaign against hard right Liberal MPs | Australia news | The Guardian

GetUp’s grassroots campaign is gunning for the Coalition conservatives it says are ‘holding back progress’

Source: GetUp raises ghost of Abbott past with campaign against hard right Liberal MPs | Australia news | The Guardian

Australian Politics

Banking royal commission: Turnbull’s budget policy responds to Labor’s agenda

Increasing inequality has allowed Labor to start doing something it hasn’t done for decades – articulate a worldview.

Source: Banking royal commission: Turnbull’s budget policy responds to Labor’s agenda

Australian Media, Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: My after Easter catch up. Bolt looks to Sky. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Tuesday 29 March. 1 After a short break it’s a bit difficult to know where to start, Oh well, let’s start with Bolt. After 5 years of poor ratings with ‘The Bolt Report’ on 10 it seems he is looking to the sky with a nightly program. Ten apparently refused to continue funding his ratings…

Source: Day to Day Politics: My after Easter catch up. Bolt looks to Sky. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

The struggle for the soul of the party

It looks like there are two Liberal parties, and they don’t much like each other.

Source: The struggle for the soul of the party

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: Turnbull’s diversionary tactics. |‘Why would you reward a party who has demonstrably governed so badly in its tenure of governance another three years’

Tuesday 22 March 2016 1 How ironic of Malcolm Turnbull to choose one of Tony Abbott’s pet pieces of legislation to seek a DD election. The irony here of course is that the ABCC legislation is largely based on the Abbott’s shock and awe strategy of creating fear about Labor’s links to Unions. With Unions…

Source: Day to Day Politics: Turnbull’s diversionary tactics. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: I have been Trumped. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Friday March 18 2016 When I wrote my piece titled ‘Only in America: Looking at Trump from Down Under’ I must confess that secretly in the labyrinth of my being I thought the American people were too intelligent to succumb to Donald Trump’s populist outbursts. Stupidly I, like many others, assumed that over time his…

Source: Day to Day Politics: I have been Trumped. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: You probably won’t read this. It’s about Climate Change. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Thursday 17 March 2016 1I have always believed Greg Hunt to be the second biggest liar, behind Abbott, in Australian Politics. On Tuesday morning while driving my grandsons to school he was being interviewed on AM. The previous day it was announced that the average global surface temperature for February was 1.35°C warmer than the…

Source: Day to Day Politics: You probably won’t read this. It’s about Climate Change. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Barnaby Joyce faces losing seat to Tony Windsor

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce faces losing his New England seat after just one terms as the first polling in the sprawling country electorate shows voters swing behind the old local member, independent, Tony Windsor.

Source: Barnaby Joyce faces losing seat to Tony Windsor

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: ‘Shambolic’ – I cannot think of a better word. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Tuesday 8 March 2016 1 One would have thought that after Tony Abbott was disposed of, the good government that we were promised so often might have actually occurred. It hasn’t. Malcolm Turnbull, with fine words, promised a new beginning and the public believed him. Words like reason, transparency, rational debate and policy explanation. Two…

Source: Day to Day Politics: ‘Shambolic’ – I cannot think of a better word. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: Inequality. Who really cares? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Inequality

We are experiencing a new form of government. Something approaching fascism. Well it’s certainly not Liberalism. I have long been an admirer of Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labour under President Bill Clinton, from 1993 to 1997, who was named by Time Magazine as one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries ever. He…

Source: Day to Day Politics: Inequality. Who really cares? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: The Evil Priest – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Wednesday 2 March 2016 1 Cardinal Pell in giving evidence to the Royal Commission into the abuse of children uttered two of the most debauched sentences ever spoken by an Australian cleric. “I didn’t know whether it was common knowledge or whether it wasn’t,” he said. “It’s a sad story and it wasn’t of much…

Source: Day to Day Politics: The Evil Priest – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Day to Day Politics: Was Abbott right? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Sunday 28 February 20161 1 Who said this? ‘I am a reformer by nature, very much so’ ‘Everything, every single element, is on the table. And I know that always means that someone can then run a scare campaign, but I’m sorry, we’ve got to stop [this]. This is part of the political tradition I’m…

Source: Day to Day Politics: Was Abbott right? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Tim Wilson’s resignation is his greatest contribution to human rights

The resignation of Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson may well be regarded as his greatest contribution to human rights, writes Tess Lawrence.

Source: Tim Wilson’s resignation is his greatest contribution to human rights

Australian Politics

Wake up Australia, you are being conned – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Conservative governments would have us judge every group in society by its worst members unless, of course, you belong to the political class or their corporate partners. Muslims living in the Western world are facing suspicion and discrimination because of the action of a few militant fundamentalists. We are led to believe that people living…

Source: Wake up Australia, you are being conned – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Facing Off Against Fascists And Racists: In Defence Of the Anti-Reclaim Australia Protests – New Matilda

Some people believe the anti-Reclaim rallies are counter-productive. Matthew Stoff explains why they’re not. By now, it should be obvious to everyone who knows what the words mean that Reclaim Australia is a disingenuous neo-fascist movement, taking advantage of the fears and prejudices of working class Australia to promote a white supremacist ideology. What’s lessMore

Source: Facing Off Against Fascists And Racists: In Defence Of the Anti-Reclaim Australia Protests – New Matilda

Australian Politics

Unions vow to fight after PM says industrial relations high on election agenda | Australia news | The Guardian

Malcolm Turnbull is paving the way for a double dissolution election unless both houses of parliament pass legislation to curb the influence of trade unions

Source: Unions vow to fight after PM says industrial relations high on election agenda | Australia news | The Guardian

Australian Politics

Malcolm Turnbull government prepared to stake election on passage of union laws. TURC was a political stitch up and the Howard plan executed by Abbott remains in place.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sparked renewed speculation about an early election.

Source: Malcolm Turnbull government prepared to stake election on passage of union laws | afr.com

Australian Politics

Future tense for Turnbull as Brough and Abbott recall Coalition’s imperfect past | Australia news | The Guardian

The PM arrives home to all the ingredients for bloodletting on a historic scale amid Tony Abbott’s fresh attack on Julie Bishop and the Mal Brough saga

Source: Future tense for Turnbull as Brough and Abbott recall Coalition’s imperfect past | Australia news | The Guardian

Australian Politics

Australia’s democracy: A one-party consensus

Source: Australia’s democracy: A one-party consensus

Australian Politics

No longer Team Abbott — we are now Decent Family Australia

Should be more content now we have a shiny, bright, new prime minister, or do we need to look behind the veneer? Lyn Bender comments.

Source: No longer Team Abbott — we are now Decent Family Australia

Australian Politics

Government Spokesperson For Multicultural Affairs Declines To Criticise Reclaim Australia | newmatilda.com

Malcolm Turnbull’s Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs has declined to criticise the Reclaim Australia movement, despite the government flagging a change in tone and more consultative approach with Muslim communities.

Source: Government Spokesperson For Multicultural Affairs Declines To Criticise Reclaim Australia | newmatilda.com

Australian Politics

Abbott’s downfall caused a ‘civil war’ on the right. But can the left take advantage of it? | Jason Wilson

Conservative parties are facing a problem: how to appease their socially conservative base and their wealthy backers at the same time

Source: Abbott’s downfall caused a ‘civil war’ on the right. But can the left take advantage of it? | Jason Wilson | Comment is free | The Guardian

Australian Politics

Julia Gillard’s response to the latest leadership spill.

No, she’s not chortling into her cornflakes.

Source: Julia Gillard’s response to the latest leadership spill.

Australian Politics, Politics

Julia Gillard Rushed To Hospital After Overdosing On Schadenfreude. | SBS Comedy

Source: Julia Gillard Rushed To Hospital After Overdosing On Schadenfreude. | SBS Comedy

Australian Politics, Peter Dutton

‘Waves are battering my home’: Marshall Islands Foreign Minister slams Peter Dutton after climate joke

Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum has slammed Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for joking that rising seas will swamp low-lying Pacific islands, inviting him to watch waves that pound his home and terrify his grandchildren.

Source: ‘Waves are battering my home’: Marshall Islands Foreign Minister slams Peter Dutton after climate joke

Australian Politics, Election

Has Abbott found his 9/11? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Syrian refugee crisis has become the story of the week. The images of hundreds of refugees streaming off ferries, dozens in unseaworthy vessels, and endless lines walking along rail-line tracks toward Germany in search of a new life, have flooded our television news services. In Australia, particularly on social media, the debate is in…

Source: Has Abbott found his 9/11? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Skin in the game – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Andrew Robb admitted on Insiders that 84% of 457 workers who are currently employed were not subject to labour market testing and that that situation will remain. Just to be clear, these were his exact words BARRIE CASSIDY: Well because it raises the prospects of course that Gina Rinehart, who you mentioned of course, could…

Source: Skin in the game – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Incoming…! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Illustration by Simon Kneebone For those watching closely this week, Rupert Murdoch’s tweets clearly signposted how the political scenario is likely to unfold over the next six months. There will be a snap election. The trigger for this will arise from either a leadership challenge or a double dissolution. The latter is the more probable of the…

Source: Incoming…! – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics, Politics

Government caves in to big business | The New Daily

EXCLUSIVE: The Abbott administration has dropped a major reform to competition law after big business allegedly threatened an anti-government campaign.

Source: Government caves in to big business | The New Daily

Australian Politics

Secret freeze on refugee citizenship processes | The Saturday Paper

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The government has ceased processing citizenship applications from boat-arrival refugees entitled to become Australians, leaving hundreds in limbo.

Source: Secret freeze on refugee citizenship processes | The Saturday Paper

Australian Politics

Don’t blame Tony, he is a symptom of greed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It is wrong to blame Tony Abbott for the state of the nation. After all, he is hardly a charismatic leader who inspires allegiance. He is far from an accomplished orator who convinces us to follow him. He doesn’t even know where he is going let alone showing us the direction. So how did we…

Source: Don’t blame Tony, he is a symptom of greed – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

My Thoughts on the Week That Was – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Saturday the week that was29 August 1 I have reluctantly taken the decision to no longer refer to Tony Abbott as “Prime Minister” in my writing. I say reluctant because I generally believe in respect for the position itself. However the performance of this excuse for a national leader is so appallingly bad that I refuse to acknowledge…

Source: My Thoughts on the Week That Was – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australian Politics

Dyson Heydon to stay on at helm of trade union royal commission – live | Australia news | The Guardian

Former high court judge dismisses union applications that he disqualify himself from the inquiry after row over plan to speak at Liberal party fundraiser. Follow the developments with Daniel Hurst

Source: Dyson Heydon to stay on at helm of trade union royal commission – live | Australia news | The Guardian

Australian Politics

Tony Abbott and the normalisation of bad politics – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Public debate in Australia is essentially conservative, if not actually rightwing

Tony Abbott and the normalisation of bad politics – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Australian Politics

If we were ever the lucky country, we aren’t now –

Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten

If we were ever the lucky country, we aren’t now – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Australian Politics

Political donations: Mining hits back at Labor

Political donations: Mining hits back at Labor.

Australian Politics

Extreme Right and Left are minorities Australians are in the middle and it’s were our politics belong.