Deposed Liberals Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the factional implosion in his party as 鈥渁 kind of madness鈥. It sure looked like it 鈥 and there may be even more 鈥渕adness鈥 ahead.
Malcolm Turnbull
The Liberals 'National Energy Guarantee' 鈥 which is a wholesale rejection of climate science 鈥 is also a sophisticated political ruse. It must be rejected.
The federal Coalition government remains unstable even though Scott Morrison has replaced Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister in the August 24 leadership spill.
An alliance of organisations and individuals have聽formed the 聽to begin coordinating聽a protest against US President Donald Trump when he visits Australia in November. The following statement, initiated by outgoing NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, is being circulated for sign-ons in the lead up to the protests that are being organised across the country including in Cairns, Canberra and Brisbane.
ABC Friends National has called for nation-wide rallies in July to protest the continual funding cuts to the ABC, the ongoing conservative attacks on the independence of the ABC and the recent Liberal Party Federal Council motion supporting privatisation of the national public media organisation.
The Liberal Party鈥檚 peak body voted by a margin of more than 2:1 on June 16 for "the full privatisation of the ABC, except for services into regional areas that are not commercially viable".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is the highest-paid leader in the entire Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to .
Analysis by market research group IG also showed Turnbull earns up to 10 times the average Australian wage 鈥 the second-highest disparity with the majority of ordinary workers among OECD countries.
I鈥檝e been a Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) member for 15 years and I cannot remember a time when the union was not portrayed as a pack of gangster-like thugs, who standover "innocent" bosses.
Somehow the nature of a tough, multi-billion dollar industry with a history of being the most dangerous in the country always gets lost in the propaganda.
So imagine my delight, along with tens of thousands of other CFMEU members, when blackmail charges against union officials John Setka and Shaun Reardon were dropped on May 16.
Blackmail charges brought against Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon were dropped by Victorian prosecutors on May 16 in a major embarrassment for the federal government鈥檚 trade union royal commission, police and prosecutors.
This Autumn heat wave across the eastern states should remind us that we have less and less time to deal with the catastrophic consequences of an unscientific energy policy.
We live in an era of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change and yet horse-and-buggy politicians, such as Tony Abbott MP and PM Malcolm Turnbull, continue to insist that we still need coal-fired power.
The fact that Barnaby Joyce has been forced to step down from the leadership of the Nationals is a good thing. Not so good was Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's reframing of the former deputy PM's wrongdoings in terms of a paternalistic, sexual moralism.
Rather than address Joyce鈥檚 abuse of parliamentary privilege to ensure his partner maintained her well-paid media advisor job and questions over Joyce鈥檚 expenditure claims for travel and accommodation, Turnbull decided to play the moral card.
During his recent meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull proposed that Australian superannuation funds invest in Trump's plan to renew the US's ailing national infrastructure. He was repeating a view being pushed by Australian ambassador and former Treasurer Joe Hockey for the US to adopt Australia's controversial "asset recycling" scheme by state and local governments, aided by federal subsidies.
In February 2016, I wrote an article for 91自拍论坛 Weekly about that year鈥檚 Closing the Gap speech, with the headline 鈥淧M鈥檚 Closing the Gap speech 鈥 more Turnbullshit鈥. Aptly named I thought. But two years later nothing has changed.
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