The Republic Movement mean business, demanding King Charles formally apologise for ‘the systemic racism, oppression and Crown-sponsored attempted genocide of the First Nations people of Australia’.
The PM, who sanctimoniously decried the Morrison government over the so-called sports rorts affair, has had an expensive change of heart.
The prickly and combative Premier knows when to defer to a higher authority. As he proved during his recent trip to China, no-one kowtows like McGowan.
The shenanigans over the proposed Indigenous voice provide a fascinating case study of how to, or how not to, make the case for constitutional change.
Welcome to Country rituals apparently have been performed for millennia, but they’re remarkably adaptive to Western rent-seeking practices.
Lidia Thorpe has used her senate platform to silence opponents and stoke division, while taking cheap shots at fellow parliamentarians, Indigenous leaders and law enforcement.
Given Kevin Rudd’s fervent belief he was wrongfully denied a nomination for UN secretary-general, he would regard his present position nothing more than a sop.
A recent Newspoll revealed 38 per cent, or 9.9 million Australians, would vote ‘no’ in the upcoming Indigenous voice to parliament referendum. It should come as no surprise.
It’s easy to imagine how the ABC’s stable of activist broadcasters will take to sessions on balance over the voice referendum …
Jim Chalmers is a visionary. Initially I was unconvinced of the genius he demonstrated in his 6000-word essay. But the Treasurer is not merely prescient: he is a prophet, albeit a self-fulfilling one.
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