The Social Agenda

14 October 2019

• Boris Johnson's Australian-style points system to push skilled migrant workers to Northern towns
  14 October 2019
  Workers will be judged on a new Australian-style points system and will get preferential treatment if they head to less affluent areas outside of the ...
• When it comes to jobs, Australian values and political leadership are at odds
  14 October 2019
  I hate the phrase "job snobs." It's evocative language that continues to paint the job seeker as the villain in the capitalist picture of employment ...
• 'New Cold War': Kim Carr hits out at national security establishment
  14 October 2019
  Labor senator Kim Carr has lashed out at Australia's national security establishment, claiming that a "creeping authoritarianism" in Canberra and ...

14 October 2019

• Man charged in Darwin over alleged child abuse offences
  14 October 2019
  ... abuse offences uncovered in a joint investigation between New South Wales Police, Northern Territory Police and Australian Federal Police (AFP).
• Hackers and AFP join forces in search for missing persons
  14 October 2019
  The National Missing Persons Hackathon — hosted by AustCyber's... giving any leads back to the Centre and Australian Federal Police (AFP). “Police ...
• Health experts offer climate policy advice
  14 October 2019
  Global Health Alliance Australia executive director Misha Coleman is hoping by doing more to tackle climate change, federal and state governments ...

14 October 2019

14 October 2019

• Labor MPs condemn suggestion they adopt Coalition climate change policy
  14 October 2019
  “The government's target, which was developed by Tony Abbott with no... had been unhelpful to both Labor and to the leader, Anthony Albanese.
• Sydney lawyer fighting harassment charges over inner west fence dispute
  14 October 2019
  Emails sent by Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese were among the subpoena list of an Annandale-based solicitor fighting allegations he harassed ...
• Nurses' union urges Labor to block free trade deals that hurt working conditions
  14 October 2019
  The letter from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation to the opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, comes after the ACTU warned Labor MPs ...

14 October 2019

• Jokowi pursues majority rule, not democracy, in Indonesia
  14 October 2019
  For more than a decade, successive Australian prime ministers have... that Morrison had thumped Bill Shorten's Labor Party 55-45 earlier this year ...
• "Serial offender" union defied freedom of association laws
  14 October 2019
  Mr Setka has repeatedly refused to resign from his union leadership despite pressure from the Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions ...
• Ex-NSW Labor boss Jamie Clements surrenders phone to ICAC
  14 October 2019
  But the ex-NSW ALP general secretary, through his barrister Steve Lawrence, later raised strong objections to handing over the phone on the basis it ...

14 October 2019

• Bills: National Integrity Commission Bill 2018 (No. 2); First Reading (10 Sep 2019)
  14 October 2019
  Adam Bandt: We can have an ICAC today and we should have an ICAC today-
• Committees: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Reference (9 Sep 2019)
  14 October 2019
  Richard Di Natale:...influence across the Pacific and indeed here in Australia is something that many of us have become increasingly aware of. You need only look at what's going on in New South Wales right now with the ICAC hearings to know how wide and deep the reach of the Chinese Communist Party goes. Indeed, what we heard from the former ASIO chief was that in his view the issue of foreign interference in...
• Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers: Answers to Questions (9 Sep 2019)
  14 October 2019
  Hollie Hughes:...continue to stick with the Morrison government, who will deliver a clear plan and deliver on the promises that we made, versus a Labor Party that's conflicted and tarnished by scandal, whether it's ICAC in New South Wales and the Aldi bags full of cash, whether it's the Setka sit-in happening in Victoria at the moment, or Jackie Trad in Queensland and whatever department she sits over. And...

14 October 2019

• Independent MP Helen Haines calls for climate change action to support farmers
  14 October 2019
  Helen Haines is introducing a motion in the Lower House to push for... motion to the House of Representatives today, calling for a national strategy on... targets, and investment to help Australian farmers adapt to climate change and ...
• Envoy took President at his word in Biden denial
  14 October 2019
  ... controversy that has sparked an impeachment inquiry by the Democratic-led House of Representatives. Mr Sondland is scheduled to be interviewed ...

14 October 2019

• A lack of female representation is seeing women forgotten by the Morrison Government
  14 October 2019
  But behind this headline figure is the sad fact that women in the Liberal and National parties – and therefore the Government of Australia – are still ...
• Get to know Stirling council candidates
  14 October 2019
  I am neither a member nor affiliated with any political party I am solely... Liberal Party of WA... I am a member of the Communist Party of Australia
• Opinion | Letter to the editor
  14 October 2019
  The Liberal party is directly and intrinsically linked to the death of Australia's third biggest river and the Murray Darling basin and all the communities ...

14 October 2019

• Jokowi pursues majority rule, not democracy, in Indonesia
  14 October 2019
  Jakarta: When Prime Minister Scott Morrison flies in to Jakarta this weekend to attend the second inauguration of President Joko Widodo, he'll heap ...
• Morrison government warns Syria invasion could revive ISIS threat
  14 October 2019
  ... while she and Prime Minister Scott Morrison also spoke to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the weekend about the consequences of the US ...
• PM cancels COAG meeting despite big issues
  14 October 2019
  Labor has criticised Scott Morrison for cancelling a planned meeting with state premiers in December. Mr Morrison is understood to have scheduled a ...