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Beer in Hand, Albanese has watched one Australian Brewery after another go bust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is rarely far from a beer. Cameras have caught him chugging one in the crowd at a Gang of Youths concert in his home city, pouring at Gage Roads in Fremantle, or turning up at a Downing Street dinner with a four-pack of “Albo’s Pale...
John’s Bike: Australia’s Broken Heartlands
Give me your bike. This was 2 a.m. in a carpark in Bunbury. John, 79, left his car’s rear door open so his dog could get out. Now a large, ice-affected man in his mid-forties had his head in the door, and despite the dog going mental, he said again. Give me your bike....
Albanese’s Dirt File on Helen Haines: Revenge, Rank Hypocrisy and the Vicious Undermining of an Elected Official
Just weeks before independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately rammed twice by a vehicle outside her Wangaratta office, resulting in the amputation of both legs and leaving her in critical condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office circulated a...
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Wong’s Palestine election demand: Who will protect the voters under occupation?
Demanding an election is easy. Ensuring people can safely campaign, reach a polling station and choose their representatives is a much harder test of commitment to democracy. Penny Wong’s criticism of the postponed Palestinian elections raises a basic question for Australian foreign policy: what responsibilities should come with the demand
The politics of violence and blame
The alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines in Wangaratta raises a question that goes far beyond parliamentary security: what happens to Australian democracy when public service carries an increasing risk of personal harm? Access to elected representatives is essential to political accountability, but that openness becomes harder to sustain
Rising violence, stalled reform and double standards: how can we bring down the temperature?
The alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines in regional Victoria raises some disturbing questions about political hostility, the intimidation of elected representatives and the increasingly toxic environment in which Australian politics is operating in.Before drawing the conclusions about what occurred – and it’s not clear at this stage what