February 9, 2009 – 12:42 pm
It seems like a long time ago, but it is actually only six months that the new Senate convened in parliament House for the first time. It was a significantly different Senate in two ways. Firstly, it was the first since 1977 without a single Australian Democrat Senator on the cross-benches. Secondly, it shifted the [...]
February 4, 2009 – 5:03 pm
Given I have complained long and loud for many years about the lack of attention paid to housing issues by the previous federal government, and the current government’s previous actions in throwing extra money at the inefficient and regressive First Home Owners Grant in their first stimulus package, I have to balance the ledger given [...]
February 3, 2009 – 11:12 am
The political terms ‘Left wing’ and ‘Right wing’ were already in serious need to being totally re-defined, if not dropped altogether, given how much they have been twisted, distorted, inverted and conflated over the last few decades.
But that is nothing compared to Kevin Rudd’s latest leaps of logic in his efforts to reinvent terms like [...]
February 2, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Federal Parliament resumes this week, starting on Tuesday. The Senate sits for three days before going next week into Additional Estimates Committee hearings.
Once again, the Senate sitting days are fairly light on this year – just fifty-two days. This is supplemented by sixteen days of Estimates Committee hearings and plenty of other Committee inquiries, but [...]
February 2, 2009 – 7:25 am
Anna Rose has written a piece on the Rooted blog about the climate action summit that’s was held in Canberra over the weekend, leading up to a major protest on Tuesday outside Parliament House when MPs all gather for the first time this year.
There was one paragraph in her report that I found particularly interesting:
In the [...]
February 1, 2009 – 5:20 pm
Among the many disconcerting things about the current global economic meltdown are (a) no one is sure how much worse it’s going to get locally or globally, and (b) no one seems sure about how best to respond to it. Most political commentary about it in Australia seems to focus on how various actions will [...]
