Sometimes very little separates irony from tragedy and Labour’s Keir Starmer, the UK’s month-old prime minister, has already set eyes rolling blinkered as he is against the political steamroller heading his way.
Tagged: Gaza, Hamas, Illegal, Immigration, Islamism, Islamist, Islamophobia, Keir Starmer, UK
In 1983 Australia’s Labor Party leadership changed when then Opposition Leader Bill Hayden fell on his sword to a massively popular Bob Hawke. Hawke went on to win that year’s federal election weeks later. Hayden said just prior to his leadership spill that given the economic mismanagement of the conservative Liberal National Party coalition government (LNP), “A drover’s dog could lead the Labor Party to victory”.
Tagged: Anthony Albanese, Australia, Election, Islamism, Labor, LNP, National Security, Palestine, Peter Dutton, Politics, Resolve Poll
Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese ran great guns for his party in 2022’s Australian federal election. He campaigned on Covid-19 promising a focal change from the incumbent government’s mismanagement putting the safety of Australians first.
Tagged: Anthony Albanese, Covid-19, Indigenous Australians, Referendum, Voice
Little did I know that when I wrote in 2015 about a leadership spill in the Australian Coalition government led by Liberal Party prime minister Tony Abbott, I’d be gazing at the underpinnings of a federal election coming in six days’ time.
On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson gave his first inaugural address as president of the United States of America. He was the third person to hold the office.
Tagged: Australia, First Inaugural, Geopolitics, Jefferson, Scott Morrison
As the guns fell silent in armistice at 11 am on 11/11 1918, the world vowed it would witness its last war while it determined its victor: though when its victor was found its determination would never succeed.
Victorians. Today you are the world’s first people who have faced and defeated a Covid-19 Wave 2 with statistical validation.
Friday, October 16, dawned as a day of political tumult in Australia. Sky News Australia political editor Andrew Clennell had been pushing for the resignation of New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian over an alleged visa and land corruption scandal, whose boyfriend and disgraced State minister was about to give a final day of testimony before an ICAC probe—while Sky’s Peta Credlin, a former chief of staff to a disgraced prime minister and now tagged as a Liberal Party hopeful, bayed for the blood of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews over alleged cover-ups in a failed Covid-19 hotel quarantine program that had sparked Australia’s Covid-19 Wave 2.
There’s a scene in the epic movie “Patton”, where the namesake’s character walks along the plains of the ancient battlefields of Carthage in Africa and says, “I was here”, believing himself reincarnated as a great leader.
A unique press conference took place in Melbourne the capital of Victoria, Australia, today. One worth noting not just because Covid-19 questions relating to masks, testing, intensive care units, hoaxing and controlling the virus came up but its participants—a state premier and his chief heath officer—allowed themselves to go off the cuff and show some emotion.
Tagged: Brett Sutton, Covid-19, Daniel Andrews, Journalism, Leadership, Scott Morrison, Wave 2
Adam Parker Presents
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