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…
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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,…
Dr Ali Khan loses in the final count, Craig Ondarchie re-elected
Inga Peulich, a friend of the Victorian Indian community loses to Liberal Democrats’ David Limbrick Melbourne, December 11: As the final count of votes has now been finalized by the Victorian electoral commission (VEC), although Dr Ali Khan has lost in the final count of preferences due to leakage of preferences below the line, BT…
Election 2018: Dr Ali Khan, Kaushaliya Vaghela make it…
Samantha Ratnam re-elected Melbourne, November 26: As Victorians went to polls on Saturday, many of our own, 51 to be precise, were making history participating in those polls declaring their resolve to take control of how our state should be run. They thought it is time to have their ‘say’ in the manner our fate…
Eelection2018: Voting this weekend? consider one of your own!
Many of our own in the fray As our community grows in Victoria, so does the need for its fair representation in all areas of social and government machinery. No wonder then, of late a number of brave Victorians of Indian descent have been putting their hand up be it local bodies or clubs, municipal…
Election 2018: Possibility of a Minority government in Victoria
On 24 November Victorians will go to the polls. The state’s Labor government, headed by Daniel Andrews as premier, will be seeking a second term. Liberal leader Matthew Guy will be trying to argue that the Andrews government has failed and that the Liberal-National coalition should be elected to govern. For government to change, the…
What went wrong for Dave Sharma in Wentworth?
Sydney, October 22: Australia most likely to have a minority government as Kerryn Phelps is set to take Wentworth Australia now has a minority government as the blue chip Liberal seat of Wentworth is set to elect an Independent Dr Kerryn Phelps who trounced the Liberal vote in one of the safest Liberal seats in the…
Should spouses of temporary skilled workers have work rights?
Washington, October 18: in the US, under the Trump administration, spouses of skilled migrants are set to lose work rights in the US. Temporary skilled workers in the US on H-1B visas normally granted 3 or 6 year visas were allowed to take their spouse with them by the US governments. The spouse in that…
The Crisis at the ABC is About More than its Management
The internal affairs at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) that have led to the dismissal of its general manager, Michelle Guthrie, and the board chairman, Justin Milne, had the effect of pushing parliamentary politics to the side. This may have been a good thing for newly installed prime minister Scott Morrison, as commentator interest…
Australia changes Prime Minister (again) as Turnbull loses Liberal Leadership (again)
The federal Liberal party has a new leader and Australia a new prime minister – the seventh prime minister, indeed, since 2007. The new prime minister is Scott Morrison whose elevation owes everything to an attempt by a not insubstantial proportion of the parliamentary Liberal party to expunge the former leader, Malcolm Turnbull. The…