Category: Australian federal election 2022

Coalition Pledges To Bolster Advanced Manufacturing Sector in Australia

The incumbent centre-right Coalition government will work with business, industry, and the higher education sector to spur the creation of an advanced manufacturing sector in Australia. “Today, I’m launching our plan for modern manufacturing. A plan for modern manufacturing, which sits together with the work we’re doing in the university sector to ensure that they…


Victorian Premier Called Out Over His Role in the State Health Emergency

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been questioned over his role in the state’s health crisis that led to the death of a 14-year-old girl waiting for an ambulance as well as 15 other Victorians’ deaths in the recent months. 14-year-old Lydia Anseline died on April 13 from an asthma attack after waiting for over 30…


Australia’s Major Parties No Longer Stand for the People They Are Meant to Represent

Since early 2020, all Australian state and federal governments have, under cover of COVID-19 restrictions, gone on a rampage of control and abuse of the Australian people. Owning up to this will be traumatic for people accustomed to trusting the government based on our unique historical experience. Nevertheless, in the last two years, all Australian…


Daughter Beguiled Into Believing She Was Male, Took Hormones: Mother Discusses Her Child’s Detransition

A week before Emma* turned 18, she told her family that she was a boy. “We were really sceptical,” said her mother, Judith Hunter, “She had no history of gender dysphoria, and she was at the end of three years of very poor mental health.” Despite the family’s objection, Emma visited a gender clinic in…


Conservatives Are Being Outplayed by the Left in Australia

Commentary A new post-centrist style of politics is emerging worldwide as the political centre weakens and voters shift both right and left. The same has been happening in Australia as ever-more voters lose faith in the legacy two-party system—destabilising the old way of doing politics. The current Australian federal election illustrates how disruptive the shift…


Australian Opposition Leader Resists Guaranteeing Wage Increase

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has resisted promising an increase to average wages in Australia if he wins power at the next election. One of the key pillars of the centre-left Labor Party’s attack on the incumbent government’s performance has been slow wage growth in recent years. “Our objective is to have real wage increases, and…


Australian Leaders Trade Barbs Over Beijing Policy

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his opposition counterpart Anthony Albanese clashed on the issue of China during the second televised debate between the leaders on May 8 in the lead-up to the federal election. For both men, the debate was crucial as it came one day before early polling opened on May 9—the official…


Labor Party Confusion Over Live Export Policy Throws Industry Into Disarray

The centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) has sent the live export industry into disarray after it appeared to back away from an earlier promise to ban live sheep exports. Labor leader Anthony Albanese said on May 6—just a day after a Labor spokesperson confirmed the ban—that the opposition would not put a timeline on when…


Australian Prime Minister Warns Against ‘Teal’ Independent Vote

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has continued to warn against voting for so-called “teal” independents—backed by the Climate 200 group—saying it would destabilise the government. “Over the last three years, in particular, we’ve had the strength of a majority government,” the prime minister told reporters on Perth on May 6. “If each and every day we…


Treasurers Rule Out Increase to NDIS Levy

Treasurers from both major parties have ruled out increasing the Medicare Levy to control the spiralling cost of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will hit $60 billion-a-year (US$42.7 billion) by 2030 and has pipped the budget of universal healthcare program Medicare. During the Treasurers Debate on May 4, incumbent Coalition Treasurer Josh Frydenberg…