We have a right to expect MPs to be sober on duty
Alcohol abuse continues to plague Parliament House, yet leaders on both sides refuse to call time on it.
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Alcohol abuse continues to plague Parliament House, yet leaders on both sides refuse to call time on it.
If breaking ranks means thinking responsibly and speaking independently on an issue of the utmost urgency and concern as presented by the disproportionate Israeli response to the ungodly Hamas attack on innocent citizens, then such rank breaking is surely a good thing.
“Every year, thousands of young people experience the dramas and challenges of the HSC high-stakes testing regime”. Not this young man of my acquaintance; he’s leaving school in year 9 to pursue carpentry and building.
Up till now, the major political parties have “combined” to convince the electorate that a vote for a minor party, or even worse an independent, was a wasted vote. But democracy in Australia is changing.
The speaker of the House of Representatives should take a leaf out of commissioner Catherine Holmes’ book in her handling of Scott Morrison.