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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 3, 2008
The lack of publicly funded leave for mothers to give birth and early nurture sends a deeply disturbing signal about the Australian political ethos, given the widespread acceptance of similar payments in both similar …
Also tagged: featured, parental leave, paid maternity leave, civil society, eva cox
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Oct 1, 2008
The independent NSW MP and Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore appeared before the state’s inquiry into electoral and political funding in April 2008. In the midst of the unfolding Wollongong scandal involving property …
Also tagged: featured, campaign finance, the greens, nsw politics, property developers, norman thompson, city of sydney
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 25, 2008
As expected, the Labor Party did extremely badly in the NSW local Government elections on 13 September. They polled particularly poorly in the inner city of Sydney. This area, which comprises five state seats, is …
Also tagged: labor, featured, candidate, nsw politics, clover moore, lord mayor, city of sydney, meredith burgmann
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 22, 2008
In a recent article in newmatilda.com, titled What’s So New About Rudd’s Pacific Policy?, Maureen Penjueli and Wesley Morgan pose the question: Does the Rudd Government have the will to address the development needs of …
Also tagged: featured, pacific, free trade, international affairs, pacific islands, duncan kerr
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 22, 2008
Former NSW Premier Morris slipped into obscurity last Friday, 19 September, when he resigned his seat of Lakemba in south-west Sydney, ending a three-year-and-three-month premiership of staggering incompetence that was …
Also tagged: featured, michael costa, morris iemma, nsw politics, joe tripodi, bob carr, alex mitchell, nsw alp
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 18, 2008
Before he accidentally fell on his sword while lamely waving it around, now-deposed opposition leader, Dr Brendan "I’m a doctor" Nelson, challenged practically everyone on the government front bench to declare their …
Also tagged: featured, malcolm turnbull, brendan nelson, rented flat, struggle street, struggle st, scott bridges
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 16, 2008
Future historians will recall that from November 2007 to September 2008, Labor held government at both federal and state levels in Australia. They will note that this was a reverse of the 1969-1970 situation, where all …
Also tagged: convergence, labor, featured, andrew elder, law reform, commonwealth state relations
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 16, 2008
In case you’re reading this after having just returned from a visit to Osama’s cave in Pakistan’s wild North-West, Malcolm Turnbull has been elected leader of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. It was by a narrow …
Also tagged: leadership, hero, liberal party, malcolm turnbull, brendan nelson, irfan yusuf
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 11, 2008
Think of us, won’t you. While the rest of New South Wales goes to the polls tomorrow to elect their local councils, we here in the Illawarra won’t. Both Wollongong and Shellharbour Councils were sacked this year, with …
Also tagged: hero, icac, noreen hay, frank vellar, illawarra greens, local council elections, jill merrin, beth morgan, woollongong
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 9, 2008
The new NSW Cabinet has described itself as the "A-Team". But even a quick look at their previous records shows that this is a very big call, and one that’s likely to offend a lot of people, including B.A. Baracus and …
Also tagged: hero, morris iemma, nsw politics, bob dumpling, nathan rees, nsw labor