Australian Politics

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US broadcasting legend, Larry King, says we should already be reaching for the revolver, at The Australian: Veteran newsman Larry King has attacked Australia’s draconian freedom-of-speech laws, saying he would “react with violence” if police raided his home in a bid to identify the source of a story.

Via the Daily Mail: The Labor Party has been reluctant to seek answers on why the Chinese frigates sailed into Sydney Harbour.

Via the ABC: A senior Labor official has warned the party will continue to lose votes to minor parties like One Nation, unless it starts talking to more people than just “university-educated, city dwellers”.

Alas, this the problem of dealing with autocratic regimes that invade your space.

And why not.

Via Colin Barnett at the AFR: A modest reservation of some of that gas for the Australian market is just good policy.

Just as Kevin Rudd won as John Howard lite?

And secedes from Australian foreign policy in the process.

Via the ABC come Australia’s greatest challenges for the future according to Q&A gallahs: LIFE PRIORITIES Tara McDonald asked: We seem to be fixated on living longer at any cost and prolonging the inevitable which is death.

ACTU president Michele O’Neil has criticised Labor’s decision to support legislation to establish free trade agreements (FTAs) with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru.

Last month, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed laws legalising the recreational use of marijuana, which will allow residents aged over 18 to possess up to 50 grams and grow two plants from next year.

The ease with which Labor can win the next federal election is nicely illustrated today by two stories.

Via The National Interest: The People’s Liberation Army Navy—more commonly known outside of China as the Chinese Navy—is modernizing at a breakneck pace.

Via Ross Gittins today: Scott Morrison’s problem is that he gets politics – and is good at it – but doesn’t get economics.

There are few greater proponents of the mass immigration economic model than David Crowe at Domain.

Via Herald Sun: A close friend of Liberal MP Gladys Liu last year set up a group to campaign for China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative within Australia and the Pacific.

From perhaps Australia’s greatest ever economic hypocrite, via Domain today: Former treasurer Peter Costello has blamed ultra-low interest rates for fuelling global political extremism and accused the Reserve Bank of focusing on global currency movements rather than the Australian economy when setting monetary policy.

Labor’s caucus will shortly decide whether to support the federal government’s proposed free trade agreements (FTA) with Indonesia, Hong Kong and Peru.

Via Domain and drawn from the OMG files: A University of Queensland student has sought a court order similar to a restraining order against the Chinese Consul-General in Brisbane, Dr Xu Jie, who he claims has endangered him by describing him as an anti-Chinese separatist in a statement published on the Consul-General’s website.

Tribalism is the bane of Australian progress.

Pulling a LeBron James might enter the lexicon as something along the lines of: “as, of, or pertaining to, selling out liberal values for a Chinese Communist Party buck”.

Last month, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed laws legalising the recreational use of marijuana, which will allow residents aged over 18 to possess up to 50 grams and grow two plants from next year.