Like I wrote yesterday, the media is in two camps. If you read the reporting on the leaders’ debate, depending which side you are on, journos reporting can be seen to have been at pains to pick pieces to support what they wanted to write. The Herald Sun, unsurprisingly givesRead More →
Renee Heath, a Liberal candidate for the upper house seat of Eastern Victoria is being seen as someone plunging her party into a controversy for her religious beliefs and links to a church which some very well-known commentators have called a “cult.” This should ring alarm bells, serious alarm bellsRead More →
Election times in India are different to what we have here in Australia. In India, without fail, the references to Pakistan’s Machiavellian intentions to destabilize India start to surface in common parlance of leaders from the BJP side while the Congress without exception intensifies its attack on the BJP forRead More →
Herald Sun has run a story on a Glenn Druery ‘bombshell video’ exposing the ‘brazen rorting of Victoria’s voting system through sham political parties and the “sale” of seats for $55,000 each’. The 20 minute or so long excerpt made available by the Herald Sun is a real ‘bad lookRead More →
A researcher and writer Mathew Hilakari has put his hand up to fill the role of the outgoing Labor MP and former Victorian Attorney General and Health Minister Jill Hennessy. Due to population boom in the areas the electoral boundaries have changed. With the electorate of Altona undergoing redistribution, newRead More →
Presenting its first budget, the Anthony Albanese Government has committed to establishing the Centre for Australia-India Relations (CAIR) with an allocation of $44 million in the budget. The new Centre will be modelled to help foster new ties and support expanding exchange and cooperation with India, including by engaging Australia’sRead More →
Rishi Sunak made history when he was chosen by his party to be Britain’s Prime Minister after failing the first time to the now former Prime Minister Liz Truss. The fact that Rishi is first Indian-origin Prime Minister of Britain has brought cheer to the Indians, particularly Punjabis who shareRead More →
Daniel Andrews did on October 24, which no other Premier has done it. The premier, on the actual festival of lights date – October 24, 2022, organized a Diwali state reception and invited 600 plus prominent members of the state’s Indian community and celebrated their festival with them – asRead More →
Gloves are off and the two fierce pugilists of Victorian politics – Premier Daniel Andrews and the Opposition leader Matthew Guy- have already begun wrestling. They have been in that ‘silent election’ mode for months. Both know pandemic and its handling will be a topic in this year’s election. WhileRead More →
Dylan Wight is the new candidate for the Australian Labor party in the seat of Tarneit. He has been brought in or pre-selected after the incumbent Sarah Connolly decided to move to the newly created seat of Laverton. Dylan hails from Geelong but has been with the unions / LaborRead More →