Australian Politics

Alan Kohler on Monday night hosted a terrific segment on the ABC’s 7.30 Report exposing politicians pretending to care about housing affordability: ALAN KOHLER: For a start the average block is now a ninth of an acre, no backyard and prices have been expanding faster than block sizes have been shrinking.

The Victorian government is still negotiating with upper house crossbenchers regarding its pandemic bill.

The center cannot hold when it is occupied by a disordered personality.

Following last week’s shock blocking by former Labor power broker Adem Somyurek, the Victorian Andrews Government now requires one additional crossbench vote in the 40-member upper house to pass its controversial pandemic bill.

On Friday, the Victorian Parliament passed a windfall gains tax for properties whose value is boosted by council rezoning.

It’s official.

Once upon a time, there was something called community.

The Morrison Government may abandon or delay plans to table legislation in the Senate to establish a federal anti-corruption commission.

With Victoria on Monday expected to hit its 90% double vaccination threshold for residents aged 12, the state government today further eased restrictions for the fully vaccinated.

The Victorian government’s controversial pandemic legislation now faces likely defeat in the state’s upper house after former Labor powerbroker Adem Somyurek advised that he will vote against it.

When your personality is a lie, everything that you do is a lie because it has no moral centre.

Last week, the Victorian Bar – the professional association of barristers – urged the state government to reconsider its controversial new pandemic laws which would grant the Andrews Government “unlimited, unreviewable power” that “authorises extreme limitations of basic liberties of all Victorians and confers enormous powers on the executive”.

As we know, the toxic Morrison Government is obsessed with symbolism over substance and the message over the national interest.

In August the Morrison Government launched another housing affordability inquiry – this time examining ‘supply-side impediments’.

The past week has seen the legal profession and human rights activists lobby furiously against the Victorian Government’s proposed pandemic powers, which have already passed the lower house.

Yesterday’s Newspoll results were another crushing blow for Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Last week I reported testimony from the head of Transparency International Australia (TIA), Serena Lillywhite, to the Senate committee examining money laundering.

Last week I reported how the Victorian Bar – the professional association of barristers – has urged the state government to reconsider its controversial new pandemic laws which would grant the Andrews Government “unlimited, unreviewable power” that “authorises extreme limitations of basic liberties of all Victorians and confers enormous powers on the executive”.