Well, another year recedes and we all know what happened last year. There's been much commentary and analysis of the past year's events, however, little has been said of the year ahead. And yep, you guessed it, this piece is a look at the political landscape in 2011.
The next Victorian election is looming on the horizon and it seems a struggling Victorian Labor Government is stuck between a rock and a hard place with the electorate.
Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim has turned down an offer from Premier David Bartlett to serve in his Labor ministry.
The Liberal/National Opposition's Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop and Eric Abetz, joined by Finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce, are seemingly carrying out a successful formula for losing the next election.
With only a couple of days since federal politicians returned to Parliament for the start of the sitting year, so far we’ve seen a deluge of hot air and rubbish from the Tories, especially Tony “The Monk” Abbott and even Joe “The Tutu” Hockey who look to be attempting to make mileage from speaking...
By Simon Hukin: The outcome of the leadership ballot today has demonstrated Tony Abbott will find it devastatingly difficult to unite his party room. With only one vote in it, it should be clear to the newly anointed leader that the party does not stand resolutely behind him. The wets – led as ever...
Alex Schlotzer. More than a couple of generations appear to have forgotten what unions have done for them.
A regional emergency response to yesterday's tsunami has swung into place as the death toll rises to 140, with many missing.
Since its birth the fledgling nation of East Timor has experienced poverty and hardships.
Australia has agreed to more than double the amount of Pakistani officers training in Australia.
New Zealand has confirmed it has sent SAS troops into Afghanistan, the first time elite NZ troops have served in the country since 2006.
A compromise emissions-cutting plan for developing countries has been described as a "race to the bottom" by Greens Senator Bob Brown.
A report released by WWF-Australia has said over 1,300 new plant and animal species have been discovered in Australia over the past decade.
The Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma has announced the suspension of Fiji from the Commonwealth with immediate effect for failure to commit to 2010 elections.
A reversal of Japan's whaling policy is considered unlikely under the recently-elected Japanese Government as Australian Government representatives prepare to "strongly" put their views on the issue.
The Australian Government has moved to decouple renewables target legislation from its more controversial carbon emissions trading bill.
The Federal Government has pledged to spend $A9.3 million on programs designed to save over 100 of the country's threatened Indigenous languages.
The government has been called to spend a fifth of revenue raised by the sale of carbon permits on rural health and environment.
By Rich Bowden Img: NT Legislative Assembly. Credit: Lincolnite The Northern Territory Labor party is uncertain of holding government this afternoon after the shock resignation of Indigenous Policy Minister, Alison Anderson. Ms Anderson allegedly attended a Cabinet meeting this morning before informing her staff of her decision according to this ABC Darwin report. Ms...
By Rich Bowden Img: Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull. Credit: Adam Carr. Godwin Gretch, the under-fire Treasury Official at the centre of the now-notorious “Utegate” affair, pre-empted an Auditor-General’s report early today by admitting he concocted a vital email used to attack the Rudd government. The “evidence” was used by the Opposition to call for...
By Rich Bowden Img: Air pollution. Credit: pfala/flickr Fifteen leading Australian climate scientists have used the platform of a weekend newspaper article to hit back at what they see as creeping climate scepticism in the country’s media and politics. Declaiming doubters in an article in the Sydney Morning Herald on August 1 named “Climate...
By Rich Bowden Img: Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith. Credit: US Dept of Defence The diplomatic fallout between China and Australia continues to grow with Australian authorities denied access to detained Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and questions being raised as to whether the dramatic arrest is a “payback” by Chinese authorities over a...
By Rich Bowden Img: Pollution. Credit: pfala/flickr Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has criticised the federal Government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases saying it “undermines” global efforts to achieve real cuts in carbon emissions. Senator Brown’s criticism came in a Greens press release which said the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme of 5 percent...
An investigative report by the New Indigenous Times has uncovered documents that appear to show federal Government deceit on Indigenous land acquisitions. Quoting leaked documents, the NIT article shows that Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin received advice from her department saying that “…consulting with Aboriginal people over the compulsory acquisition of their land [was...
By Rich Bowden Img: Sorry. Credit: Spud Murphy/flickr The release of the recent Productivity Commission’s report into the state of the Australian Government’s policy on closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians has provoked consternation in Government ranks and brought condemnation from the Australian media. As this PM report of Thursday 2/7/09 explains,...
