Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elections. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2022

COMEDY: The Chaser’s SPIN

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The federal election campaign is ripe for satire with  The Chaser  dedicating a new live show to the foibles of politics. Irfan Yusuf went a...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

POLITICS: Manipulating division a fizzer in London's mayoral election

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Sadiq Khan studied law and worked as a human rights solicitor. He was made a partner of the law firm within a mere three years. He ran c...

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS: Australian Liberty Alliance candidate once sang songs of jihad

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Angry Anderson is the new Senate candidate for the anti-Islam Australian Liberty Alliance. But Rose Tattoo was once on the side of Afghan ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

POLITICS: Wizardry required to govern Oz

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Tony Abbott has been handed a resounding victory but he is likely to inherit major problems in the Senate.  Back in the 1980s, when I w...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

OPINION: Egypt's re-revolution going viral

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Muslims around the globe are joining protests on streets and on social media against military takeover. Protests have spontaneously er...
Friday, July 05, 2013

EGYPT: Trying to understand how liberals could support a military coup

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[01] The Egyptian army has moved in, suspending the constitution and removing the democratically elected government of President Mohamad ...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

CRIKEY: NSW election: the ethnic vote battle that is Lakemba

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With the NSW election coming up on March 26, there will no doubt be plenty of attention paid to the so-called ethnic vote. And with even s...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

COMMENT: Watching the election in boganville ...

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I have my computer with me at McDonalds in Mackay city, taking advantage of their free internet connection. I'm surrounded by alien and ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

POLITICS/CRIKEY: Northern Qld politics no place for wusses, sheilas

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Politics in the central Queensland mining town of Mackay isn’t a game for wusses. Or women for that matter. Which might explain why not a si...
Friday, July 02, 2010

OPINION: ALP can mine marginal seats

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Julia Gillard has impeccable working class credentials. Her parents were one of many “ten-pound Poms” migrating to Australia in 1966. Her fi...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

POLITICS/COMMENT: Religious Freedom in the Land of the Free ...

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This column was first published in NewMatilda on 17 January 2008. _____________________ Barack Obama could convert to Judaism, have a sex-c...