Overview and Introduction

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 ...
• Facebook rebuffs US AG over access to encrypted messages
  11 December 2019
  The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving ...
• 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.

11 December 2019

• There's been 8000 new Indigenous businesses launched in past decade, but federal policy needs ...
  11 December 2019
  The federal government's Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) has been... Indigenous Business Australia, Supply Nation, and the First Australians ...
• Industry guilds decry government snub to arts and fear further funding cuts
  11 December 2019
  Australia's screen industry craft guilds have decried the Federal... plays in maintaining a national arts policy and supporting creative industries.
• 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 ...

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

• Australian Parliament Seats
  11 December 2019
  Promoting inclusive parliaments: The representation of minorities and indigenous peoples in parliament 4 I. At the election, the Labor Party won a ...
• Australian Senate Election 2019
  11 December 2019
  The Republican Party currently controls the U. Steve Dickson, Australian... However, Julia Gillard, acting prime minister, said the Labor government ...
• Labour Party Posters Vintage
  11 December 2019
  Labour Party General Election 2019: 10 ways Labour can win as country.... Australian Labor Party Ww1 Posters Political Posters Australian Vintage ...

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

• Awards for people who make a difference
  11 December 2019
  Volunteers:The Hon Scott Morrison MP presented his annual Cook Community Awards to people who make a difference. Picture: James Green.
• 'A nail in our coffins': Fiji clergyman tells Scott Morrison coal is killing the Pacific region
  11 December 2019
  Fijian clergyman and climate advocate James Bhagwan has seized on an infamous 2017 image of Prime Minister Scott Morrison brandishing a lump ...
• Anzacs mural at Mex Club in Mayfield wins hearts and minds
  11 December 2019
  "As much as I love him [Scott Morrison] as a Christian brother, each lump of coal represents a nail in our coffins and to our crosses," the Methodist ...