perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2008
It’s been a good week for getting rid of politicians with a penchant for sexual harassment.
Earlier in the week, Troy Buswell, the Western Australian state Liberal leader, finally stepped down. Buswell had been lambasted for months after various incidents of sexually harassing women, including sniffing the chair and making sexual remarks towards a Liberal staffer, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Steve Kons, the Tasmanian Deputy Premier - who had been reported as a potential replacement for Premier Paul Lennon if he were to resign this year - has resigned after a pretty strange series of events led to him being caught misleading parliament today.
It seems that late last year, Kons - the then Attorney-General - […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008
I’m becoming increasingly convinced that our means of appointing judges -whereby the say-so of a state Attorney-General is enough to put someone on a Supreme Court - is just not good enough. In the last day, I’ve come across two cases of men being appointed to high judicial office who shouldn’t be getting anywhere near […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, there’s been a pretty messy corruption scandal developing in New South Wales surrounding the activities of a couple of corrupt local bureaucrats, a few developers, and about half the Wollongong council - all of whom have serious political connections within the Labor Party. There’s an important angle on this […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2008
This afternoon, the only non-retiring member of the Liberal caucus in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, former Shadow-Attorney General Sue Walker, announced that she would quit the Liberals and run as an independent in the forthcoming election.
The Liberals in Western Australia have perhaps been the only state opposition within striking distance of an incumbent Australian […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2008
The Age is reporting that Kim Beazley is being tipped as the next Governor-General, with Michael Jeffery due to retire in a few months. What the? We’ve had two atrocious conservative Governor-Generals in a row with former archbishop Peter Hollingworth and then former soldier Jeffery, so you’d think Labor would try and put up a […]