Former Liberal staffer and sexual assault advocate Brittany Higgins has called for “immediate action” on misconduct in Parliament, after a landmark Human Rights Commission report.
Read the full Report here
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/document/publication/ahrc_set_the_standard_2021.pdf
The Jenkins review has 28 recommendations to fix parliament’s toxic culture – will our leaders listen?
Sonia Palmieri, Australian National University
In the...
Labor $2.4 billion plan to expand suburban and regional access to full-fibre NBN
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese is promising a Labor government would invest $2.4 billion to boost the NBN, expanding full-fibre access to 1.5 million homes and businesses.
With the faux election campaign in full swing, although the...
Garry Linnell: Advance Australia Fair is just ‘beautiful lies’
Every nation tells lies about itself. It’s how history is made.
Little fibs are buffed and shined and presented as facts. Distortions and exaggerations are given a lick of paint and turned into brightly shining legends.
Even absolute falsehoods can be burnished enough...
While Australians were distracted last week by Melbourne’s lockdown ending and the final days of the Queensland and United States elections, both major parties joined forces in federal parliament to weaken political donations laws.
The legislation passed last week overrides state bans on property developer donations in two ways.
Federal parliament...
Scott Morrison has stated he wants to govern in the “Howard tradition”, but sadly that has also entailed adopting the worst of John Howard’s strategies: to admit or explain as little as possible. Recall the former prime minister’s commitment to the Iraq war without parliamentary debate, the Tampa and...
Your entire life savings has evaporated overnight, but not because some anonymous fraudster had stolen it.
It happened because the very banking institution that regulators have repeatedly told you is "unquestionably strong" has faltered.
The bank has taken your deposit and converted it into shares to ensure its own survival.
A Senate...
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.
Donald J Trump has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from...
So basically, my father and his children and grandchildren have been paying taxes to compensate those who enslaved our ancestors, and you want me to be proud of that fact. Are you f**king insane???”
And the slave owners not only received compensation from the British taxpayer, they won another concession,...
An increasing clamour of calls to wipe slave trader Ben Boyd off the NSW map has come after state environment minister Matt Kean said he would investigate replacing the controversial name.
Boyd in the 1860s was responsible for 'blackbirding', a slave trade practice which involved tens of thousands of Pacific...