Legal for politicians to lie?
The ABC’s RMIT fact-checker confirmed that political parties can lie with impunity in their advertising during federal election campaigns, or anytime really. Remember ‘Labor has secret plans to introduce a …
Norway to hit 100 per cent electric vehicle sales early next year
While Norway is on track for 100% of all new cars sales to be EV’s in 2022. Australia is at 0.6%.
Collaery case ruled mostly open
The ACT Court of Appeal yesterday overturned a previous ruling in June that would have allowed the trial against Bernard Collaery to be held entirely in secret. The court said …
Reshuffle and nukes
Tim Wilson has been appointed assistant minister for industry, energy and emissions reduction – yes – the Tim Wilson who argued when Policy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs …
Missing Gladys already
Premier Berejiklian has stepped down while the investigation by ICAC takes place into the seedy behaviour of her erstwhile manfriend, Daryl Maguire. She should not have indulged him but we …
Disaster payments to stop regardless of lockdown
This is really mean. The Treasurer announced today that once vaccination rates reach 70 percent, disaster payments will start to be phased out. They will then be tapered off over …
World’s oldest tropical rainforest returned to Aboriginal custodians
The Daintree, Ngalba-bulal, Kalkajaka and the Hope Islands National Parks (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) – 2.3 million hectares – will now be jointly-managed by Aboriginal rangers and the community, …
Greta Thunberg speaks to UN climate action summit
My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. …
COAG bill wrong on every count
Update 29/9: Senator Jacqui Lambie has said she won’t support the the offending Schedule 3 of the bill meaning it’s unlikely to pass. Defying the facts, bringing the law into …
House prices spiral out of control as the government does nothing
Macro-prudential controls such as loan caps based on the recent taxable income of the buyers offers a way out of this situation.