The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and senior minister Don Farrell have turned their sights on a group of crossbenchers in a debate over big money in politics.
An individual,company or third-party activist group who could currently contribute an unlimited amount to a campaign will be outlawed from giving huge sums to parties.
Curtin independent MP Kate Chaney is confident the political winds that swept her and five colleagues in similar electorates across the country to power were part of an ongoing movement rather than a fleeting moment.
The teal independent,who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”,says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.
In view of what has transpired,the NSW state government has to publish the traffic modelling that must have been done at the time the now-notorious Rozelle interchange was being designed.
As we see trust declining in democracies across the world,it is crucial that Australians feel they get to choose their representatives from a full field.
Teals Kate Chaney and Monique Ryan said they would support Labor’s changes but warned wider reform must be on the agenda to tackle problems such as bracket creep.
An ad ban was one of the key recommendations of a cross-party committee into online gambling harm,which was chaired by the late Labor MP,who died on Monday.
Doctors who give voluntary assisted dying information over the phone,email or telehealth are at risk of prosecution,after the Federal Court ruled that voluntary assisted dying is considered suicide under the Commonwealth criminal code.
Two whistleblowers facing trial need more than ‘a discussion paper by Christmas’ from a government that’s promised better protections,the independent MPs say.