
Clive Palmer spat with Twisted Sister escalates
The musical spat between political hopeful Clive Palmer and an American rock band over the use of their hit 80s song We’re Not Gonna Take It has escalated.
The musical spat between political hopeful Clive Palmer and an American rock band over the use of their hit 80s song We’re Not Gonna Take It has escalated.
Restoring the respectability of parliament and ending the drift to petty personality politics requires a fundamental shift, argues Cory Bernardi. Here, he outlines a seven-point plan that he says will help re-engender confidence and trust.
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Tinkering with electoral boundaries continues to yield grossly unfair results, writes former Liberal leader Iain Evans. He argues a top-up system that hands power to the party with a statewide majority would give voters the government they want – and leave his own party with no excuses.
Federal Labor has launched an extraordinary broadside against its longest serving state government, with a senior Senator claiming Jay Weatherill has declared “open warfare” against the people of South Australia over his advocacy of a debate on increasing the GST.
Premier Jay Weatherill insists he won’t be gagged by his party over his advocacy of a national debate on increasing the GST, warning colleagues they won’t win an argument by “simply putting your hands over your ears”.
A terrible tragedy has highlighted not only a shameful loophole in South Australia’s laws but an irrefutable and troubling truth about bureaucracy in this state, writes Tom Richardson.