As the federal election campaign for 2025 came to an end, polls showed Labor comfortably ahead but predictions still uncertain about a minority government outcome given the slim majority Labor won in 2022. To evaluate the various party and independent candidates and the possible outcome, The Sydney Institute invited Mary Easson – former Labor MP [...]
For decades, Malcolm MacKerras' electoral pendulum has been part of predicting the outcomes of Australia's elections. His pendulum for the federal election of 2025 was published along with his 600 word piece in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday 25 March 2025. What to make of it in these days of weekly polling from multiple sources? Malcolm Mackerras [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG ISSUE – NO. 721 28 March 2025 * * * * Stop Press – A cry of ”what about the EVs?” heard around the ABC offices Can You Bear It? – Nine’s star reporter Nick McKenzie’s bad language; Nick Bryant accidentally reveals the left-wing bent of the ABC audience; Alan [...]
As Australians prepared to go to the polls in 2025, the chances of minority government after the federal election seemed real according to the polls. The increasing number of independents in the parliament also suggested the outcome would be unpredictable. The Hon Paul Fletcher, a former minister in the Turnbull and Morrison governments and Member [...]
Allegra Spender was elected as a teal MP representing the electorate of Wentworth in Sydney at the 2022 federal election. Her election ended a long history of the seat being a blue ribbon Liberal constituency. As Ms Spender explained in an address to The Sydney Institute on Tuesday 29 October 2024, her election was part [...]
On New Year’s Day 2024, morale was relatively high since the Year of the Dragon was expected to usher in a time of professionalism and rational thinking. However, that we live in a continuing vale of tears was evident as narcissism, anger, false prophecy, hyperbole, rudeness, intolerance, bad taste, double standards and ignorance prevailed over [...]
The firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea in the early morning of Friday, December 6, is without question the worst example of anti-Semitism in Australian history. But this might not have been the case if the fire lit on June 19 outside the Melbourne office of Josh Burns, the [...]
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TIANANMEN SQUARE AND ITS AFTERMATH – 35 YEARS ON THE TRACES OF TIME – A CHINESE POLITICAL PRISONER SOLICITED BY THE US, by JianMin Wu [Wu Jianmin]. Bouden House, New York RRP: $US38.00 Reviewed by Keith Harvey The 2024 US Vice-Presidential candidates debate between J D Vance and Tim Walz was broadcast live into [...]
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