The Social Agenda

11 December 2019

• Politicians Fiddle While Australia Burns
  11 December 2019
  You'd think that Australia's political class would be under pressure to come up with solutions to the disaster spreading over nearly 10 million people ...
• Australians think political correctness has gone too far — but do they mean it?
  11 December 2019
  And according to data from the Australia Talks National Survey, the idea that political correctness has "gone too far" is shared by most Australians.
• UK's Johnson pushes his Brexit message
  11 December 2019
  With two days until Britain's election, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's final push to drive home his key message about Brexit has been overshadowed ...

11 December 2019

• A Frenchman has been charged with an offensive act at the war memorial
  11 December 2019
  Police allege a man was walking through Hyde Park at around 10pm... The Australian Federal Police also say the woman was forced to work long ...
• The Australian Government has an arts problem that starts with the word itself
  11 December 2019
  National arts funder the Australia Council for the Arts was recently re-launched with a new headquarters and a fresh strategy: "Creativity Connects Us".
• An online puppy scam conned Rebecca out of $800, but her identity could be at risk too
  11 December 2019
  In a statement, Victoria Police confirmed it had referred Rebecca to the Australian Federal Police and the ACCC-run body ScamWatch.

11 December 2019

11 December 2019

• Anthony Albanese Tours Regional Tourism
  11 December 2019
  Anthony Albanese is headed deep into Queensland coal country, with his regional tour reaching Rockhampton. The federal opposition leader has ...
• Politicians Fiddle While Australia Burns
  11 December 2019
  Labor leader Anthony Albanese is on the same page, embarking on a tour of coal country in Queensland state and declaring his strong backing for ...
• Pitt tells Albanese to 'stop the delays'
  11 December 2019
  HINKLER MP Keith Pitt has called on Federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese to show support for regional Queensland ahead of his expected ...

11 December 2019

• Queenland's gas policy shames Labor in Victoria Robert GottliebsenFollow @BGottliebsen
  11 December 2019
  Queensland ALP Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk must be enjoying exposing weaknesses of the “new Labor” policies of Victorian ALP Premier Daniel ...
• Upper house vote down GM bill
  11 December 2019
  Its about time the Labor Party and SA Best took their heads out of the sand... Lifting the GM crop moratorium would allow South Australian farmers to ...
• Bring on the Adani jobs: Labor leader
  11 December 2019
  The Australian - 2019-12-11 - THE NATION - GREG BROWN... road trip through regional Queensland at the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party.

11 December 2019

• Matters of Public Importance: Politics (4 Dec 2019)
  11 December 2019
  Adam Bandt:...watchdog before Christmas, and we could have one before Christmas if the government wanted to. Why could we have one? Because the Senate has actually passed a bill to establish a national ICAC. I was proud to be the first member to introduce a national anticorruption watchdog bill into the House. That was then improved on by the previous member for Indi, Cathy McGowan, and worked on by a...
• Committees: Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee; Reference (3 Dec 2019)
  11 December 2019
  Jacqui Lambie:...Nothing to see here,' according to the Tas Libs. Incidentally, in case the Tasmanian Liberals don't know, he's the same guy who was mates with Sam Dastyari, and Sam himself told the New South Wales ICAC that he believed the powerful Chinese property developer and major political donor may have been working to influence Australian politics. I'll take the 'may' out; I will call it: he was...
• Questions without Notice: Prime Minister (3 Dec 2019)
  11 December 2019
  Christian Porter: Is that the same Geoffrey Watson who made an inappropriate statement in questioning in the New South Wales ICAC? Is that the one? Ah, that's interesting, isn't it? It's a question of judgement, and Mr Watson's judgement is incorrect. In fact, shadow Attorney-General, your judgement has been fairly poor on these sorts of matters, I'd have to say. A government member: What's the score? The...

11 December 2019

• Donald Trump's articles of impeachment, explained
  11 December 2019
  Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United ...
• Today in history, December 11: Prince Albert becomes king of England
  11 December 2019
  1998: The Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives votes to... 2018: South Australia beats strong national competition to house the ...
• It's beginning to look a lot like impeachment
  11 December 2019
  ... stage for him to be impeached by the House of Representatives next week.... Meanwhile, head of Australia's royal commission into child sex abuse ...

11 December 2019

• Australian voters — volatile, disloyal and impatient Paul Kelly
  11 December 2019
  The Liberal Party owns the over-65 vote, with the study showing this split 60-29 per cent Coalition over Labor. Scott Morrison has tied the “grey” vote to ...
• Australia's first Chinese-born federal parliamentarian, Tsebin Tchen, remembered after car crash
  11 December 2019
  In 1973, Mr Tchen joined the Liberal Party after becoming an Australian citizen. He was elected to the Senate for Victoria in 1998 and served on ...
• Malcolm Turnbull joins calls for national response to bushfire emergency
  11 December 2019
  He said it was clear Australia was not fully in control of bushfires and that... aim at the negative influence of climate “deniers” within the Liberal Party.

11 December 2019

• Firefighters call for national summit
  11 December 2019
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday rejected calls for additional help for volunteer firefighters who have been battling blazes since August.
• The Australian Government has an arts problem that starts with the word itself
  11 December 2019
  Minister for Communications and the Arts Paul Fletcher was quick to allay concerns that the Arts portfolio, which he asked PM Scott Morrison to assign ...
• Fears Aust eruption death toll will rise
  11 December 2019
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it was hard day for a lot of Australians and he feared there would be more bad news to come. Australian Associated ...