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- Welcome back Julia, now do it differently
Three Independents, belittled as 'The Three Amigos' but riding into the sunset nonetheless, have won the trust of their electorates and been able to exercise a little, meaningful power about how Parliament should work. This may not last, now that the decision has been announced.
Issue 17 : Published 08-Sep-2010
- Utopianism could fix politics
On the most important issues facing the nation, indeed the world —
climate change — we have had a Prime Minister who vaguely recognises
the problem but resists doing anything about it, and an opposition
leader who trivialises it to a question of tax.
Issue 17 : Published 06-Sep-2010
- Churches standing up to 'pro-Israel' politicians
The Australian Jewish News has condemned the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) for calling on Australians to boycott Israeli goods made in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories. The NCCA is supporting a campaign of groups determined to act where western political leaders have failed. Leaders including Barack Obama, Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott refuse to acknowledge what they are backing when they declare they are ‘pro-Israel’.
Issue 17 : Published 03-Sep-2010
- No equal voting opportunity
Many of us value our participation in the election and have been excited by the resulting hung parliament. But some adult citizens cannot be placed on the roll at all, with a significant number of
Australians with intellectual disabilities or mental illness disenfranchised.
Issue 17 : Published 02-Sep-2010
- The perils of holding the balance of power
Though the Independents are raising
expectations about a 'new politics', the forces behind the status quo are strong and the public is fickle. If
they fail to deliver they might eventually suffer a
backlash, like Kevin Rudd and the Democrats before them.
Issue 17 : Published 30-Aug-2010
- Beyond the selfish election
The churches, with their tradition of recognising the deeper values
in human beings and society, can play an important part in generating a richer vision of Australian society. They'll need to cooperate with other groups who decry
the self-interested focus in Australian politics.
Issue 16 : Published 27-Aug-2010
- All MPs have Independents envy
Since both major parties wasted their chance to secure a clear
mandate, the Independents have been treated by the media as opportunists and vengeful egotists. By making Parliament complex,
the rise of Independents complicates the lives of political hacks.
Issue 16 : Published 26-Aug-2010
- Guerilla diggers' East Timor debt
Hundreds of Timorese men and boys served alongide Australian fighters in an amazing guerilla campaign throughout 1942 that tied up several thousand Japanese troops while the battle for
New Guinea was underway. Australia has made at best half-hearted efforts to acknowledge this debt.
Issue 16 : Published 25-Aug-2010
- Timor Diggers' guerilla war
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
Issue 0 : Published 24-Aug-2010
- Hung parliament could be the making of Gillard
There was a massive loss of confidence in Labor's policies. The Australian electorate saw through the triviality of what both major parties were offering. Gillard would deserve her party's full support in leading a Labor Government in a hung parliament. This may be the making of her as a great prime minister.
Issue 16 : Published 24-Aug-2010
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