Unions NSW is launching a High Court challenge to election expenditure laws. A recent case from Pennsylvania provides an interesting contrast.
Category: Australia
Reform in the Vatican: Pell to the rescue
Australia's own George Pell is appointed to a new committee of cardinals that will advise on reform in the Vatican: a unique and difficult task.
The politics of (illegal) style
Actions are illegal, not people. But Associated Press has got itself into a political storm by acknowledging this conceptual truth.
What happened yesterday
Simon Crean's spectacular failure yesterday illustrates a common failing among modern politicians – an aversion to actual, good-faith negotiation.
Western Australian election wraps up
The Western Australian election is all decided, and neither Greens nor Liberals got any benefit from the other's preferences. But they probably didn't do them any harm either.
News Limited still at it ten years on
News Limited appears to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing in ten years. Then it was Iraq, now it's media regulation.
The week’s electoral roundup
Election news from Zimbabwe, Western Australia, Bulgaria, Kenya and Venezuela.
A Victorian lesson on fixed terms
Last week's political crisis in Victoria illustrates a problem about having fixed-term parliaments in a Westminster system.
The problem isn’t loyalty, but citizenship
The problem in the Ben Zygier/Prisoner X case, and potentially in many others, is the way the state demands a certain sort of loyalty – "allegiance" – of its citizens.
What Wilders means
The sponsors of Geert Wilders are being reticent about the details of his speaking engagements, but there's little doubt that his views strike a chord with many Australians.
The World is Not Enough 