It’s a rare good day for Prime Minister Abbott today with several stories suggesting his immediate crisis has passed. The first is Malcolm Turnbull offering praise, from the AFR: Malcolm Turnbull has lauded Tony Abbott as an intelligent, courageous, brave and thoughtful man but added the only attribute that really matters is that the Prime […]
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From the AFR: China’s 15th richest man has 90 days to sell one of Sydney’s finest homes, at whatever cost, or face the prospect of prosecution. The $39 million Point Piper mansion Villa de Mare was sold last year in contravention of existing laws that prohibit foreigners buying property without government approval, Treasurer Joe Hockey […]
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Short answer: it isn’t obvious that it can.
Having recently listened to Clarence Valley councillors debate before voting to deny a $2.8 million boutique redevelopment of the older-style Surf Motel in Yamba, primarily on the basis that the architect had kept the allegedly 100 year-old frontage footprint in the plans before council and the lift well was 97cm higher than allowed with part of the rear of the building 27 cm higher than allowed, I can appreciate the sense of frustration building in a section of the Maclean community at the same nine councillors approach to the latest move by the company behind the IGA supermarket developme
This was 'political commentator' Graham Richardson in The Australian on 27 February 2015:Surely, though, there must be savings to be made in disability pensions.
No, she isn't. In 2007 the press gallery nominated her as a 'dark horse'. Later that year she supposedly could have left federal politics and become Premier of WA. In 2008 she was a 'compromise candidate' between the terminal Brendan Nelson and the bumptious Malcolm Turnbull.
An and they're off! musing: Clarence electorate candidates in 2015 NSW election beginning to answer voters' questions on a moderated Facebook page
I just cleaned my teeth. I was about 20 seconds into the brushing when I realised it wasn't just toothpaste I was brushing with but also hand soap. theBoy!
End of the Night Girl was published in 2011, as part of the prize attached to an Adelaide Festival Award for a Best Unpublished Manuscript. Apparently it had been turned down by a number of other publishers before this. I find this hard to understand; I think it is a very good book.
Will voters buy Scott Morrison’s attempted transformation from Mr Operation Sovereign Borders into a warmer, softer ScoMo? Article for The Hoopla.Filed under: Politics Tagged: Scott Morrison, The Hoopla