The federal Coalition joined several premiers,including Victoria’s,in demanding urgent national cabinet attention on the number of women being killed by men.
Australia can bid for solar cell factories,but if we lack the power to run them,the hope is forlorn.
The imposition of a two-week youth curfew in Alice Springs following an outbreak of violence has again exposed Australia’s dark heart ruined by the poverty of dispossession.
An influential parliamentary committee has found the laws,introduced amid concern about Chinese foreign influence,have major flaws and need to be reformed.
Our former prime ministers are entitled to taxpayer-funded air travel,an office and staff,as well as ground travel – and it’s costing taxpayers a pretty penny.
The pumped hydro project never stacked up economically,technically or environmentally. The all-up costs could now be more like $25 billion.
It’s not in our national interest to have former leaders desperate to earn a dollar.
Former PM Scott Morrison’s wish to emulate Julia Gillard in retirement is an attempt to salvage his tattered reputation by drawing on the incredible success of her post-parliamentary career.
From Labor in Power in 1993 to the just-wrapped Nemesis,the four series on eight Australian prime ministers is a monumental achievement,one only the ABC could or would do.
The series set in concrete the reputations of each of the prime ministerial protagonists but added nuance and delicious detail.
Watching the ABC docuseries,it’s hard to escape the conclusion that not a lot of public service work was being done.