The Election Review |
- All in the game: Shining a light into the weird world of Craig Thompson
- Australia’s response to Syrian genocide: diplomats expelled
- Massacre of children could be turning point in Syrian conflict
- Obama expands secret wars across the globe
- Labor’s tactics backfire
| All in the game: Shining a light into the weird world of Craig Thompson Posted: 30 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT Mark Rolfe The ALP and the union movement have never liked scabs. But yesterday we witnessed a labour scab of a different sort as The Wound Formally Known As Craig Thomson continued to be bleed rather than heal. Yesterday during Thomson's statement to parliament, nobody was really expecting convincing evidence of a conspiracy against him. [...] |
| Australia’s response to Syrian genocide: diplomats expelled Posted: 30 May 2012 03:36 AM PDT Jo Coghlan Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has expelled the Syrian Charge d'Affairs Jawdat Ali Syrian in the wake of the Houla massacre that have reportedly seen 32 children massacred in Syria in recent days. He has said that Australians are "appalled at a regime that could connive in or organise the execution, the killing of men women [...] |
| Massacre of children could be turning point in Syrian conflict Posted: 30 May 2012 03:29 AM PDT Adam Taylor It’s pretty much impossible to not be shocked about the news coming out of Syria at the weekend. At least 116 people were shot or killed as pro-government militia (or possibly even troops) went door to door in Houla, murdering entire families. Of those 116 people, its thought 49 people were civilians. While the Syrian [...] |
| Obama expands secret wars across the globe Posted: 30 May 2012 03:26 AM PDT Andrew J. Bacevich It is only on Obama’s watch that secret warriors have reached the pinnacle of the U.S. military’s prestige hierarchy. As he campaigns for reelection, President Obama periodically reminds audiences of his success in terminating the deeply unpopular Iraq War. With fingers crossed for luck, he vows to do the same with the [...] |
| Posted: 30 May 2012 03:17 AM PDT Graham Young Caught between the hammer of the government’s bad reputation and the anvil of demographic change, Wayne Swan’s budget has toughened support for the Coalition while it has made Labor’s more brittle. It was seen by the greater proportion of voters as tricky, targeted at social groups that didn’t matter to them, or bribing them [...] |
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