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Tag: Parliament of Australia

  • A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure

    Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in dire straits.  Referenda proposals are rarely successful in Australia: prior to October 14, 44 referenda had been conducted since the creation of the Commonwealth in 1901.  Only eight had passed. […]

  • Weasel Words in Aviation: Protecting the Flying Kangaroo

    Ambrose Bierce, whose cynicism supplies a hygienic cold wash, suggested that politics was always a matter of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.  It involved conducting public affairs for private advantage.  How right he was.  One way of justifying such an effort is through using such words as the “national interest” or “public interest” […]

  • Uneasy Locations: The Russian Embassy Site in Canberra

    They think we are mugs – and it’s insulting. It’s all fine for politicians to be swimming, swerving and tossing about in the goo of paranoia that is surveillance, chatting to the ghost called foreign interference; but to expect the rest of the citizenry to be morons is rather poor form. But the formula has […]

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