Keywords: Hung Parliament
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 23 August 2010
32 Comments
The result suggests some fascinating questions. Prime among them is whether Labor panicked and threw away this election when it deposed Kevin Rudd and replaced him with Julia Gillard in June. Would Rudd have done better? The answer is probably yes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 August 2010
20 Comments
We are wrong to assume our involvement
in the political process ends with the casting of votes. If the experience of a fetid election campaign, of leadership abdicated
and of a hung parliament leads us to offer more modest
local forms of participation and leadership, all Australians will gain.
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AUSTRALIA
Gordon Brown's dignified resignation underlines the fact that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's options in choosing a coalition partner remain open. He is wise not to rush a decision to finalise a deal. After the election that everybody lost, a coalition that works could make winners of the British people.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Scally
- 30 April 2010
8 Comments
Gordon Brown's campaign has hit rock-bottom thanks to an inadvertent remark being whipped into a huge story by mischief-making reporters. He is to Tony Blair what Pope Benedict is to John Paul II — shy, serious, and a little too 'heavy' for our sound-bite culture.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 23 March 2010
6 Comments
The Greens are arguably the true winners of Saturday's inconclusive Tasmanian state election. The Rudd Government should be worried. An arrangement with the Greens may be unavoidable should Labor wish to retain power.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hanifa Deen
- 17 September 2009
6 Comments
Visits by our senior politicians offering glib reassurances
will not halt the turndown in Indian enrolments in our tertiary institutions. We need to revisit the days when we treated international
students as people rather than statistics in an export industry.
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AUSTRALIA
At their best, the Democrats refused legislative trade-offs, viewing compromise as a step towards cynicism. Should deadlocks beset parliament in the months ahead, people may regret the departure of the party that tried to keep the bastards honest.
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AUSTRALIA
Brazil produces plenty of food and has large exports thanks to its plentiful GM crops. Yet 40 per cent of its people go to bed hungry. GM is about making money, not feeding the hungry.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 January 2008
This
year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in
Britain. Social justice organisations around the world are using the
film Amazing Grace to put a spotlight on the modern trade in human trafficking. From 25 July 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 25 July 2007
2 Comments
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain. Social justice organisations around the world are using the film Amazing Grace to put a spotlight on the modern trade in human trafficking.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 30 April 2006
The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination
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