Over the last week jostlings about political legacy have brought the names Hawke, Keating and D’Alpuget back into the public spotlight. One other central name, Hazel Hawke, is no longer able to present her own perspective, she has advanced dementia. I didn’t know anything about Sue Pieters-Hawke apart from the fact she came from a …
Apparently the Prime Minister is currently visiting the Governor General. This is a necessary precursor to a Federal Election being called. It is the Governor General who issues the decrees which dissolve Parliament and set the election date. Then again, maybe they’re just going to share morning tea.
Australia’s most famous public intellectual, leftist and atheist, Phillip Adams, has not renewed his membership in the Labor Party. He outlines his reasons for doing so (not doing so) here. Lest the link disappear in days to come: Removing a PM from office is a job that properly belongs to the electorate. It’s what elections …
This is too good not to mention in some way. Julia Gillard, Australia’s new Prime Minister was in the habit of declaring her loyalty to her predecessor, Kevin Rudd in most colorful, expressive and imaginative terms. Having reconsidered her position and supplanted Rudd, in order that the government of which she was the deputy leader …
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