Jim Chalmers considers tilt at leadership
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Labor’s finance spokesman Jim Chalmers has confirmed he is considering standing for Labor leader, which would put him up against [...]
Australia
Coalition Win Will See 3000 Commonwealth Jobs To Be Cut
With the re-election of the Morrison Government the public service is set to lose 3000 jobs amd another $1.5 billion slashed from Commonwealth agencies. CPSU National [...]
Labor’s election defeat reveals its continued inability to convince people it can make their lives better
Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University The election result was a triumph for the Coalition and a defeat for pundits. The result is even more striking when the drift to the left [...]
ACTU: Morrison has no mandate for regressive IR agenda – Morrison on notice
Australia’s trade union peak body has put the re-elected prime minister on notice saying Government’s narrow re-election means it has no mandate for a regressive IR [...]
Morrison is not the ’Fair Go’ PM for Australians, he is for banks, millionaires and corporations
Opinion: Scott Morrison talking about the fair go is the worst joke possible. This man is far from the fair go for Australians. This is the man who cut schools, cut [...]
Senator Wong pays tribute to Julie Bishop “for her trailblazing rote as the first Australian woman to be Minister for Foreign Affairs”
Senator Penny Wong has paid tribute to Julie Bishop for “her trailblazing rote as the first Australian woman to be Minister for Foreign Affairs.” The Senator [...]
The Liberal Party is irreparably split & the civil war WILL continue
The Liberal Party, whatever it does today is irreparably split and the civil war WILL continue. What we have seen over the last three days is a government and a Liberal Party [...]
LibSpill Chaos: Dutton’s request for another spill – Turnbull says no
The ABC reports that leadership challenger Peter Dutton has asked for a second leadership spill and Malcolm Turnbull has refused. Dutton tweeted this morning: “A few [...]
Labor now does politics better than the Liberals – here’s why
Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University The obverse of the current crisis in Australian conservative politics is the resilience of the Australian left. The Labor Party has twice [...]
‘Jobs & growth’ an illusion under the coalition, 18.9% unemployed or under-employed
18.9% of Australians are unemployed or under-employed. For 24 straight months, more than 2 million Australians have been looking for work or looking for more [...]
