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Illiberalism: the Dunkley by-election and the cost of doing business

March 12, 2024 - 16:46 -- Admin

The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we will see those numbers multiplied exponentially. It is not a stretch to say that the Liberal Party’s campaign in the Dunkley by-election places them firmly in the illiberal category. This is hardly surprising since several…

Bridging The Gap In Remote, Rural & Regional Skills Training

March 12, 2024 - 15:55 -- Admin

Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA) Media Release A new assessment of skills training across remote, rural and regional Australia highlights the complementarity of independent Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and public TAFE colleges. The 2024 Remote, Rural and Regional Skills Training Snapshot is published by the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), the peak body…

Floozy Sussie and the racist gambit

March 11, 2024 - 17:01 -- Admin

From whinging, whining and blowing snot bubbles to playing to the Klueless Klutz Klan From objet d’ridicule to vile scrubber “The real competition now is to see who is a bigger drag on the Liberal vote, Dutton or Ley. Either way it’s a race to the bottom.” (Dee Madigan). The Tory capacity for feculence knows…

By-election for Cook

March 11, 2024 - 11:36 -- Admin

Department of the House of Representatives Media Release The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon Milton Dick MP, has issued the writ for the election of a Member of the House of Representatives, for the electoral division of Cook in New South Wales. The dates in connection with the by-election will be as follows: Issue…

A Broken Land

March 10, 2024 - 21:33 -- Admin

By James Moore “The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?”…

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Junkyard Dutton ducks for cover under Gina’s nuclear umbrella, but he’s still up shit creek

March 10, 2024 - 18:19 -- Admin

Junkyard Dutton slinks away from Dunkley in a blue funk, after his humiliating rout as the brains behind the Advance-Liberal (Ad Lib) coalition’s “Rapists, paedophiles and murderers”, fear n’ smear campaign.   No-one can count a club of billionaires’ dark money, but a Qantas Chairman’s Lounge of plutocrats, masquerading as a grassroots outfit “Advance” report $5.2 million in…

The Campaign to Free Assange: Reflections on ‘Night Falls’

March 10, 2024 - 13:30 -- Admin

The town hall meeting is the last throbbing reminder of the authentic demos. People gather; debates held. Views converge; others diverge. Speakers are invited to stir the invitees, provoke the grey cells. Till artificial intelligence banishes such gatherings, and the digital cosmos swallows us whole, cherish these events. And there was much to cherish about…

Significant changes to a worn-out Australian democracy require some positivity from Peter Dutton (cont)

March 9, 2024 - 22:01 -- Admin

Continued from Significant changes to a worn-out Australian democracy require some positivity from Peter Dutton Let’s envision a future where everyone has equal opportunities for growth and success. The key to achieving this noble goal is to let go of outdated social objectives and invest in a broader social and philosophical common good that benefits…

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