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Shareby Publius Iceland shows directly-elected Heads of State can do everything monarchists claim the monarchy does. Publius discusses Iceland’s Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The recent experience in Iceland relating to a President veto...
ShareThere has been positive and negative aspects to the Queensland flood clean-up efforts, says Tim Badrick. One solution, he suggests, is the de-amalgamation of the Queensland “super-councils”. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh...
Share Tony Abbott should also apologise for the comments he made about the travel costs of grieving asylum seekers. Barry Everingham comments. Just when Tony Abbott sinks to what seem to be the lowest of depths even for him he manages to...
Share Australia’s system of democracy is far from perfect. David Donovan details some of its failings and offers some solutions. Let’s get this straight: our system of representative democracy is far from being a perfect democracy. As...
ShareGovernments selling off profitable public assets hasn’t worked in other Australian states and won’t work in Queensland, says Tim Badrick. Selling the farm is a flawed economic shortcut and simpleton solution to reducing debt,...
SharePresident Mubarak has disappointed pro-democracy protesters in Egypt. Can democracy prevail, or will the nation descend into chaos? David Donovan comments. In Egypt, President Mubarak has disappointed pro-democracy protesters in Cairo...
Share‘Menacing’ Tony Abbott is to the Liberal Party what Mark Latham was to the ALP, says Barry Everingham. The Liberals need a more stable leader. There’s no doubt that Tony Abbott is to the Liberal Party what Mark Latham...
ShareTony Abott is calling the planned natural disaster levy just another “great big new tax”. Does he have a heart of stone? Barry Everingham comments. When natural disasters create death, disaster and havoc in our country, it...
ShareBarry Everingham reports on Sarah Palin and the increasingly shrill and threatening American far-right. Fox News: claims to be "fair & balanced" yet is unashamedly partisan The rigid excesses which surface from time-to-time...
ShareIn an article in the Adelaide Advertiser, the former Senator, ex-leader of the Australian Democrats and past Australian Republican Movement national committee member Natasha Stott Despoja says there should be no republicanism during...
