Canterbury-Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour has stepped down as a New South Wales Labor candidate after reports emerged about his lavish spending during a council trip in Tokyo. The Daily Telegraph on Friday reported Asfour charged ratepayers $120 for a health spa treatment, claimed hundreds of dollars for alcohol and thousands of dollars for luxury clothing spent…
Labor Candidate Pulled out of Election Race Following Revelation About Lavish Personal Spending
Discontent Grumblings With Major Political Parties Grow Louder
Commentary The malaise within Australia’s two major political parties has been on regular display in recent times. The latest chapter is being written by New South Wales (NSW) state MP Tania Mihailuk who has left her former political home of 11 years in the Labor Party to join One Nation. One Nation is clearly a…
From Labor to One Nation, Will Tania Mihailuk’s Woke Warning Come True?
Commentary Ten weeks out from the New South Wales (NSW) state election, Tania Mihailuk, the independent member for Bankstown, has announced that she will run for an Upper House seat on the One Nation ticket. Formally of the Labor party, Mihailuk has been a member of the NSW Parliament since 2011 and served as the…
One Nation Seeking to ‘Clean Out’ Moderates From Centre-Right Liberal Party
Moderate MPs in Australia’s centre-right Coalition government will confront an additional challenge from the right-wing conservative One Nation party after it announced that it would preference the centre-left Labor opposition in five key marginal seats. Pauline Hanson, national leader of the party, revealed on April 28, that in its “first shot across the bow” One…
Defeated Bill Gave Parents a Say on Trans, Woke Ideology Taught in Classrooms: Latham
Australian politician Mark Latham, the leader of the New South Wales (NSW) state branch of the right-leaning One Nation party, has raised concerns about the increasing presence of “left-wing politics and woke concepts” being taught in schools, including on transgender topics, which he said amounts to “child abuse.” “There’s a lot of left-wing politics and woke concepts…
Staffer from Australia’s One Nation Party Charged with Fraud
Queensland police have arrested and charged a man who works for the One Nation Party with fraud relating to election funding. Alexander Jones, named on the party’s website as national executive treasurer, was charged with four counts of fraud after the Electoral Commission of Queensland referred a complaint to police. Following investigations launched in January,…
Fringe Politics Threatens More Harm Than Good to Australia’s Democracy
Commentary Buffeted by the stormy blasts of COVID-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government rolled and rocked at times like the Manly ferry in a tempest. And now as he prepares to go to the polls in the first half of 2022, Morrison will be hoping that voters will reward him for his efforts by sending…
One Nation Senator Roberts Says Lambie ‘Being Dishonest’ About Leaked Phone Number
One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has said that Independent Senator Jacquie Lambie is “being dishonest” by saying her safety was threatened by the publication of her mobile phone number, given she had already published it on her Facebook page. “We don’t condone publishing phone numbers that are private,” Roberts told sitting MPs in the Senate…
Only 5 Australian Senators Back Proposed Law to Overturn Vaccine Mandates
Five Coalition senators have crossed the floor to vote in favour of a private member’s Bill calling for an end to vaccine mandates in the country. Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation party introduced the COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 on Nov. 22 to overturn mandatory vaccination requirements across the country….
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