Notes on Adelaide
In today’s column, Adelaide Cabaret Festival artistic director Ali McGregor opens up a public stoush with local arts critics, and Cory Bernardi looks to build his own high-tech aid to target voters at the next federal election.
Politics
Likely Legislative Council loser Robert Brokenshire concedes it was his idea for Australian Conservatives colleague Dennis Hood to quit the party and join the Liberals, but he insists he will remain with Cory Bernardi’s start-up enterprise if he manages to retain his own seat.
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Australian Conservatives leader Senator Cory Bernardi wants Parliament to put the same-sex marriage issue put on the backburner if the yes vote prevails, with greater urgency given to the resolution of the citizenship issue.
Conservative senator Cory Bernardi has defended targeting millions of homes with robo-calls urging people to vote ‘no’ in the same-sex marriage postal survey, but he has simultaneously attacked as an invasion of privacy bulk text messages sent out by marriage equality advocates.
Family First will cease operating from today after the party agreed to join Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives, but the “merger” has cost the group a federal senator.
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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