December 4, 2008 – 10:50 pm
One thing I seriously enjoy about not being in Parliament is not being stuck in a front row seat while people knowingly talk utter bullshit. The vilifying and irrational scare campaign about asylum seekers sadly still has some life in it, but that is very well documented. Another developing area of deliberate crap speak which [...]
December 2, 2008 – 8:09 pm
It may sound implausible, but I have to admit that since leaving the Senate, I haven’t managed to find the enthusiasm (or the time) to follow every single debate that has occurred in that illustrious Parliamentary chamber. So I have to admit the following heartfelt declaration of adoration for the beauty and majesty of the [...]
December 2, 2008 – 12:07 pm
The federal Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Migration has released the first report of its inquiry into immigration detention.
It is a sign of how far the debate has shifted back into rational and humane territory that many of the Committee’s recommendations – which a few years ago would have been seen as ground breaking – [...]
December 1, 2008 – 3:00 pm
Most of the post-CAOG coverage, as was the case leading up to COAG, was focused on health and education. However, there have been some outcomes in the fundamental area of housing which deserve closer attention. A National Affordable Housing Agreement has been adopted by all the federal, state and territory governments with National Partnership areas of [...]
