Melbourne, May 20: Scott Morrison defied all polls and pundits and led the Coalition to a stunning victory in 2019 elections. Claiming victory Prime Minister Morrison paid tribute to the “quiet Australians” who had delivered the Liberal Party victory. “I have always believed in miracles,” he said. “And tonight we’ve been delivered another one. How…
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$2.5 million for Indian Community Centre in Bayswater
Dandenong, May 13: In a specially organized function for the Indian community at Museum India here today, the Liberal party has made a commitment of $2.5 million for an Indian Community Centre. “Should the Morrison government be re-elected we would provide $2.5 million to build an Indian Community Centre right here in Victoria,” Alan Tudge,…
OCI concerns for a Liberal party candidate of Indian descent
An Australian Indian Vaishali Ghosh, Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Wills, (in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne) has been in the news for voluntarily withdrawing as Liberal party candidate because of OCI (Overseas Indian Citizenship) concerns; she may be in breach of Section 44 of the Australian constitution which defines disqualification of members…
Aussies go to polls on May 18
Canberra, April 11: The speculation is over. Aussies go to polls on May 18. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has asked Governor General Peter Cosgrove to dissolve parliament to allow Australians to elect their parliamentarians for the next term on Saturday, May 18. Although Coalition is facing an uphill task, Scott Morrison had no choice but to…
Waleed Aly: Guilty of the same crime?
Soon after the tragedy in New Zealand, Senator Fraser Anning, now infamous target of the infamous ‘Égg Boy’, had suggested that the cause of such gruesome and cowardly act – was Muslim migration into New Zealand. “Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence?” Senator Anning had tweeted. “I wonder if there…
Tudge assures compliance by regional migrants
Melbourne, March 29: Australia goes to polls in the month of May. If all the opinion polls turn out to be accurate, Scott Morrison and his coalition parties will not be in government after the polling day. While the government ministers and members will not admit in public, their chances of winning are not great….
Minor party politics:Putting One Nation into perspective
There are few Australian politicians who receive as much critical commentary scrutiny as the One Nation senator from Queensland, Ms Pauline Hanson. A case could certainly be made that media obsession with Ms Hanson tends to be way out of proportion to the share of the vote her party won at the last federal election…
Should Sarah Hanson-Young leave the senate, along with Anning?
The answer is an emphatic YES. Politicians have been suffering from an extremely low trust quotient for a long time but such blatant and gross misbehavior being not just endorsed but appreciated by Sarah Hanson-Young (SH-Y) as to call the younger idiot (Anning is the bigger one) Australia’s Hero is a the lowest of the…
New political year heralds grim times for Liberals & Nationals
by Nicholas Economou As Australia Day and its attendant controversies become a fading memory, the national political debate resumes after the Christmas – New Year holiday period. For those who have forgotten, here is a re-cap of where the debate is at. As a result of a host of dreadful by-election results for the…
Neelam Rai does well despite her unceremonious exit from Nov Election
Neelam Rai Dhingra a Liberal party candidate for the Victorian upper house berth in the Northern Metro Region had to quit after accusations of her links with an unregistered charity “No Hunger” were made in a story published in the Herald Sun last month. Her name at no. 3 behind Craig Ondarchie and Evan Mulholland,…