by deborah666 | Aug 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
ELIZABETH JACKSON: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is scrambling to defuse a diplomatic crisis with China this week over her reported comments to Fairfax that she planned to take tougher stand on China than her Labor predecessors. The comments have prompted criticism...
by deborah666 | Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
The country’s most powerful corruption watchdog, the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, has been ordered to shut down a public inquiry into high profile Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen on the grounds her alleged conduct did not amount...
by deborah666 | Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Over the past decade most states in Australia have abolished or dramatically reformed the defence of provocation for murder. The reforms were aimed squarely at putting an end to men who kill their wives and girlfriends getting away with murder. New South Wales is now...
by deborah666 | Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Federal budget cuts to higher education funding sparked student protests around the country this week. Vice chancellors are fretting too. The leaders of Australia’s most elite universities have called on the Abbott Government to rethink the scope and timing of...
by deborah666 | Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
MARK COLVIN: Aged care reforms pushed through in the dying days of the federal Labor government last year are due to come into force in July. The reforms will include tighter means testing of aged care services by assessing both income and assets – including the...
by deborah666 | Aug 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Spearing NSW Premier could be a setback for stronger anti-corruption powers in other states Deborah Cornwall reported this story on Thursday, April 17, 2014 18:18:00 Listen to MP3 of this story ( minutes) ALTERNATE WMA VERSION | MP3 DOWNLOAD MARK COLVIN: The sudden...