As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics editor Amanda Dunn discuss Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’ exit, as well as the revelation
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Admiral Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, appears to be Schrodinger’s admiral, alive according to Moscow, dead according to Kyiv, with no clarity as to who may be right. The real significance of the missile strike on his headquarters, though, is not so much whether it did kill
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Any serious politician knows perfectly well by now that net zero 2050 won’t fly democratically. There was an inevitability about Rishi Sunak graciously allowing us longer to keep buying our petrol cars and using our gas boilers, not to mention Emmanuel Macron’s own subsequent climbdown on the gas boiler issue in France earlier this
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What has been dubbed a second decolonisation process is occurring right now in Africa’s Sahel, reports Paul Gregoire.
read now With the resignation of Dan Andrews, Victorians can once again go to coffee shops and cafe owners will undoubtedly be offering free coffee in celebration… Strangely the little bit of Sky News I watched didn’t even go to them, but chose to interview journalists about how they found the Premier
read now Media Alert Canberra: Following the announcement of the referendum date, the Tech Council of Australia (TCA) Board has confirmed its support for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament to be enshrined in the constitution. Kate Pounder, CEO of the TCA said, “From launch, the TCA has made
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Activist and author Micheal Euade has traced the history of the struggle for Catalonian nationhood and its intersection with class struggle from the medieval period to the present in his 2022 book, A People’s History of Catalonia. Alex Salmon reviews.
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A New York judge has ruled that the ex-president committed fraud by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth. The post It’s official: Trump is bad at business.
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Justin Trudeau’s government sees fascists everywhere, except when one is standing right under their nose. That’s the brilliant if bleak irony of the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of the Ukrainian military who, it turns out, fought under the Nazis in the Second World War.
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Members were underwhelmed by low-ball tactics. Strikes to be expanded across multiple agencies as employees play the long game. The post CPSU to escalate industrial action after weak APS wage offer vote appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now A review by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski found excessive power was conferred on PwC’s chief executive and there was a lack of independence and outside voices within the governing body. The post ‘Whatever it takes’: PwC’s poor behaviour exposed appeared first on The Mandarin.
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ShutterstockA beauty trend gaining popularity on TikTok, dubbed the “carrot tan”, claims eating three carrots a day will give you a natural tan. But can this really give you a natural glow? And is it healthy? Read more: Explainer: why are carrots
read now With the sudden announcement that Daniel Andrews will be stepping down as premier of Victoria at 5pm today, the Labor Party has been working to find the best replacement. Deputy Premier Jacinta Allan, from the Socialist Left faction, was widely tipped to become the next premier, especially as she
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Every time a politician tries to sell the idea of internet censorship, they wrap its wolfish features in the fluffy sheepskin of ‘safety’. ‘If you don’t agree with this bill, you are literally endangering children! Don’t you care about child sex trafficking? Are you a terrorist? You hate speech monger!’
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Thai democracy activists say a pervasive culture of impunity exists in Thailand to protect those responsible for enforced disappearances of those who speak out against military rule, reports Peter Boyle.
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Earlier this year, China updated its anti-espionage law amid an intensifying rivalry with the US and growing distrust of the Western-led international order. The law broadens the scope beyond what it originally sought to prohibit – leaks of state secrets and intelligence – to include any “documents, data, materials,
read now The employment white paper says a First Nations Economic Partnership will be scoped to create more jobs for Indigenous workers. The post Future work policy to focus on improving First Nations economic outcomes appeared first on The Mandarin.
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In a parliamentary democracy, when a valid law is passed, the people submit to that law. But on the prior question of how a law comes to be valid the relation is reversed: the parliamentary government submits to the people. The Australian Constitution is founded in the people: “Whereas
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When the retiring premier took the reins of Labor in 2010 ‘he had the gravitas of a traffic cone’. But he refashioned himself, and the state. The post Dan
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Australia’s streaming services are in no rush to do anything about Russell Brand, and what if Fox threw a crime spree and no-one came? The post Abbott gets access to
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ShutterstockScience is hard. The science of consciousness is particularly hard, beset with philosophical difficulties and a scarcity of experimental data. So in June, when the results of a head-to-head experimental contest between two rival theories were announced at the 26th annual meeting of the Association for the
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The government’s approach when it comes to employment drives home Australia’s bipartisan indifference to the poor. The post Labor’s employment white paper continues the wreckage of neoliberalism appeared first on
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The retiring premier’s enemies never understood the extent to which he grasped the electorate — or why his antipathy to business won approval. The post Dan Andrews’ secret is that
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ShutterstockCitizen science isn’t new anymore. For decades, keen amateur naturalists have been gathering data about nature and the environment around them – and sharing it. But what is new is the rate at which citizen scientists are collecting and sharing useful data. Last year, 10 million observations of
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With the Victorian premier hanging up his hat, he leaves in his wake a state with blistering debt, project cost blowouts, and a lack of transparency. The post Just how
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It’s a whirlwind experience running for Parliament — and it can be particularly ferocious with no mentors or professional support. The post As a woman, my first run at politics
read now As a former competitive snowboarder and instructor, and later a researcher of snow sports, I’ve been lucky to enjoy ski resorts around the world. But nothing compares to Mount Ruapehu on a good day. Holidaying with my family last week, we fell in love with the natural terrain of both
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It used to be that the word suggested superiority. Now it’s considered a character slur, its current noxious position sitting right beside ‘woke’. The post What should we hear when
read now The Serious Financial Crimes Taskforce is targeting businesses using electronic sales suppression tools to cook up false tax records. The post ‘Full force of the law’ against SMEs using tech to avoid tax appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now Warren Mundine has struggled to articulate exactly what legal risk changing the constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians poses. The post Referendum contest for hearts and minds strays into territory of thoughtless fear-mongering, contradiction appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now The RAAF has been on a strategic regional catwalk tour on the home stretch show after playing to crowds in Japan. The post RAAF F-35As deployed to Indonesia for regional air power debut appeared first on The Mandarin.
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Daniel Andrews’ deputy Jacinta Allan is more than likely to replace him in the top job, and Football Australia considered selling the Matildas, Socceroos and A-Leagues to a private equity
read now Victoria’s long-cycle workplace agreements of about four years make for bruising negotiations. The post Dan Andrews calls time ahead of Victoria’s summer of public sector strikes appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now Proposed laws will ensure tax agents who supervise the work of others in large advisory practices will be linked to a registered firm. The post Tax adviser overseers should be disclosed, committee hears appeared first on The Mandarin.
read now Glyn Davis says public servants should be protected from arbitrary politicians, and politicians deserve to be protected from public servants. The post ‘Genuine shock’: Glyn Davis reacts to Pezzullo scandal appeared first on The Mandarin.
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GettyImagesThe lead-up to the Voice referendum is already affecting the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These impacts will likely worsen during and after the vote. A quick search of any social media platform about the Voice referendum reveals a range of strong perspectives
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Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel, Nineteen Steps, revolves loosely around true events. In 1943, the Bethnal Green tube disaster claimed the lives of 173 Londoners, due to faulty stairs in the station used as an air raid shelter. This tragedy, the UK’s largest loss of civilian life
read now As former Labor minister Barry Jones has wisely noted, the Voice referendum feels like 2016 all over again. The shock from the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom in June of that year set the stage for what came next: the off-the-charts upheaval of the Donald Trump earthquake in
read now While COVID in children has generally been milder than in adults, there are concerns long COVID may be a major consequence for children and young people arising from the pandemic. Long COVID, also known as “post-COVID condition” is an umbrella term for a range of symptoms that can persist for
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Food waste is a global problem with approximately 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted each year throughout the food lifecycle – from the farm to food manufacturers and households. Across the food supply chain, Australians waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food each year. This costs our economy approximately A$36.6
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WA Western Whale Watch Australia, CC BY-NC-NDIf you’re a whale, there’s often not too much to see out in deeper water. Perhaps that’s why so many whales get playful with kelp and other seaweed. Once might have been chance. But we’ve collected over 100 examples on social
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Scott Morrison is writing a book. Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, is the title. It’ll be ‘less political memoir, more pastoral encouragement’, Harper Collins Christian notes. The former Prime Minister will draw on Jeremiah 29:11. Leaning on the major prophet’s words to Ancient Israel in exile, Morrison
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