Month: October 2012

THE final figures are not in, but a pro-female swing is clearly discernable in last weekend’s ACT election. Maybe the general political environment of Julia Gillard’s denunciation of Tony Abbott for being what she called misogynist might have rallied female voters. Continue reading “Females preferred in ACT election”

A FEW observations. The day was saved for the Government by the better-than-average performance of two women – Katy Gallagher and the Greens’ Meredith Hunter. Continue reading “Democracy at work, ACT style”

TWO nuclear powers – India and Pakistan — face each other in the Asian sub-continent. Millions of lives are at stake. Neither country is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. Australia – the country with second largest amount of uranium on earth — is a potential supplier of uranium to one of those states, India. Continue reading “Trivial masks the big uranium question”

ITS term is fixed. It collects the garbage and it is the most democratic of all the Parliaments in Australia. Yes, this is the Parliament which the people of the ACT are electing today, in the eighth ACT self-government election. Continue reading “ACT election extra articles”

ONE of Australia’s leading constitutional experts, Professor George Williams, called this week for a firm timetable for a referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the Constitution and to rid the Constitution of its remaining racist clauses. Continue reading “Why the 1967 referendum went wrong”

ALAN Jones makes it very difficult for us Voltairians who find merit in the precept: “I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the utmost your right to say it.” Continue reading “Jones makes it hard for Voltairians”