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None of the above

Just when we thought it was all over … Australia stepped up and did its democratic duty on Saturday. Amid accusations of dirty tricks, last-minute frantic electioneering and the heady smell of the...

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Two households, not alike in dignity

Last Saturday Australia was unable to decide whether to vote in the ALP or the Liberal/National Coalition. As a result, we have a hung Parliament, with the balance of power resting in the hands of...

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Neither messiahs nor upstarts

The seat counting is all but finished, and it looks like shaking down into a dead heat between the major parties. Although the Coalition are still counting Tony Crook in their numbers, the new member...

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Mandate, mandate, who’s got the mandate?

Mandate. It’s an impressive word, isn’t it? Positively drips with authority. We’ve heard it bandied about quite a bit in this election by the two major parties. Abbott ‘has a mandate’ because the...

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Greens back Labor for government

The Greens have just announced that Adam Bandt will throw his support behind the Labor Party in its bid to form government. This takes Labor’s seat total to 73, although Senator Bob Brown was careful...

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Mythbusting

An old teacher once told me, ‘Myths spread. After a while, people treat them as real facts. As time goes on, they become history.’ I’m not a fan of that idea. It might be fun to speculate about the...

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The beginning of the end?

On this, the opening day of the 43rd Parliament of Australia, I’d like to pause for a moment, and extend my deepest sympathies to Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Andrew Wilkie and Adam Bandt on the death...

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