Monday, February 11, 2008

Don't Tell the Prime Minister

I just finished reading a book called Don't Tell the Prime Minister, written by Patrick Weller. It's about the children overboard affair that occurred just before the 2001 Australian federal election. The Prime Minister, Immigration Minister, and Minister for Defence...


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Monday, November 26, 2007

Another election

And so Labor wins the federal election as was widely expected. At present it looks like they will end up with 88 seats in the 150-seat lower house, with the Coalition holding 60, and 2 independents making up the remainder....


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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

State Parliament goes online

As of next Tuesday, the Queensland State Parliament is to offer online streaming video of proceedings. It goes live just in time for the State budget to be presented. This is a great development for political junkies like me who...


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Perks for Ex-MPs

The Courier-Mail is upset this morning about ex-Queensland MPs costing the state $200,000 per year in travel perks. Like many other countries, Queensland provides travel perks for MPs after they have left office if they have served at least 7...


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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Rudd threatens the Sydney Morning Herald

Kevin Rudd, the leader of the federal Labour opposition, and quite possibly the next Australian Prime Minister has been directly implicated in threats against the Sydney Morning Herald to prevent them from publishing a story. The article is worth reading...


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How not to manage a water crisis

As you probably now, South-East Queensland is in the midst of a water crisis, and is about to undergo level 5 restrictions in a couple of weeks. At least they are doing something about it now, by building a recycled...


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Friday, February 9, 2007

Uproar in the Queensland Parliament

There was uproar in the Queensland Parliament yesterday as the last few days of tumult descended even further. The last days have seen 4 dissent motions against the Speaker, who is accused of bias, a no-confidence motion in the Attorney-General,...


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