With the “massive expansion of espionage, which will now include “any information that compromises Australia’s political and economic interests” we see another step in the inexorable march by the Turnbull government to turn Australia into a totalitarian state whilst Labor acquiesces without a whimper. – Reg Murray, CLA member, Glen …
Who benefits? (“Federal Court deals blow to early release of Palace Papers”, Canberra Times, 17 March 2018)
The website of the National Archives of Australia proudly boasts: “We are the nation’s memory – a living collection of government records illuminating our history and identity.”
Considering the ‘Me Too’ campaign, it seems to me that the problems associated with it, in Australia anyway, require long- term solutions rather than expressions of anger.
The Commonwealth government ran Canberra until 1988. From 1988, the Australian Capital Territory has been self-governing. Unlike the six state governments, the ACT government relies heavily on revenues from land-based taxes, rates, levies and stamp duties. Now to The Canberra Times: (“Land plan bit rich: Greens”, February 21, p1). The Greens …
Until Australia was elected to the UN Human Rights Council, with the resulting increased attention on our treatment of refugees, I hadn’t realised what a world leader in crime prevention we really are. As Australian politicians have repeatedly said, the indefinite detention in concentration camps for the refugees who were …
Malcolm Turnbull rejected New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 Manus Island refugees in New Zealand. The reason is Turnbull would lose 150 out of the 600 “tethered goats” who deter faraway refugees. Once Turnbull loses all his 600 “tethered goats” in Manus, the deterrent effect is gone. No longer could …
The refugees aren’t the illegals. It’s the politicians that are. – John Passant, CLA member, Kambah ACT
David Eastman was convicted in 1995 of the murder of Assistant Commissioner of Police Colin Winchester. On August 22, 2014, the conviction was quashed and a new trial ordered, by which time Eastman had served almost 20 years of a sentence of life imprisonment. The DPP is proceeding with the …
After much anticipation the letter arrived. I opened it and read the question a first time. I then wasted time, yelling abuse across the room and acting like a schoolyard bully by calling out childish names. At one point I nearly had to remove myself from the room. My lap …
So, Australia & East Timor have reached a “confidential” agreement on a new maritime boundary & how they will jointly develop billions of oil & gas reserves in the Timor Sea … maybe, possibly, perhaps, we’ll see … (“Australia and East Timor strike ‘landmark’ deal to end Greater Sunrise dispute”, …
