The cashed-up United Australia Party ran in every seat听but only won 4.12% of the vote. Peter Boyle argues that it is the rise of the climate听movement that holds the real promise to prevent right-populism from rising to US levels of support.
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Clive Palmer
As the rich and powerful have always done, Clive Palmer is boasting he will spend听$100听million on听influencing the outcome of the federal election. Peter Boyle reports.
Billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has launched multiple court actions against the Western Australian government and its premier. Jim McIlroy argues that with organisation and struggle, we can challenge the ill-gotten wealth of the 1%.
They say class politics is dead in egalitarian Australia 鈥 but what about election 2019?
If one billionaire can literally buy seats in Queensland and another guy can use his media empire to tear the opposition to shreds, class politics is well and truly alive in this country.
The bizarreness of Australian politics was summed up in multi-millionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer鈥檚 election advertisement accusing Labor of 鈥渟upporting the big end of town鈥. He's right, though he is in no position to point the finger, writes Carlo Sands.
Regular readers of 麻豆传媒 Weekly will sometimes admit their favourite part of the paper is Carlo鈥檚 Corner, the semi-regular satirical column by comic writer and performer Carlo Sands.
In a paper filled with heavy and even gloomy topics, people appreciate the chance to laugh 鈥 especially at the seemingly all-powerful forces who presume to be our betters yet cause so much pain.
鈥淣o joke can change the world, or really anything at all,鈥 Sands says, ahead of his stand up show Inspired? at the Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival.
The article below is based on a talk by Felipe Stuart Courneyeur to the Canada-wide convention of the Canadian Network on Cuba, in Toronto in June.
Courneyeur has dual Nicaraguan-Canadian nationality; he divides his time between the two countries. He is an active member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The article is abridged from johnriddell.wordpress.com.
Theresa May is now Britain鈥檚 prime minister in name only. Leading a government that may collapse within days, propped up (she hopes) by the homophobes of the Democratic Unionist Party, it is clear her time is nearly up.
So while May is in office but not in power, who has stepped into the vacuum of leadership she has left? Jeremy Corbyn.
Cuba鈥檚 Council of Ministers approved听鈥淟ife Task鈥 (Tarea Vida) on April 25, a plan for confronting climate change.
It is the latest manifestation of Cuba鈥檚 sustained endeavour to contain the impact of climate change. The Cuban government has dedicated resources and talent to the project for many years.听Policymakers have relied on facts, data, and ongoing research.
The year 1917 offered an extraordinary course in political literacy for the people of Russia.
In the February anti-Tsarist revolution, which 鈥渄ispensed breakneck with a half millennium of autocratic rule鈥, and then in the October socialist revolution, eager workers and peasants stumbled over and then mastered a new way to speak of economic and political democracy, writes China Mieville in October, his narrative of the Russian Revolution.
This is going to be an election based more on competing policies and visions of society than any other election for a long time. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, pointed out at the London May Day rally that this is completely different to the past two elections where the challenge was to spot the difference 鈥 elections that Labour lost.
The 鈥渃lean coal鈥 power generator being promoted by the federal government comes from a 2009 proposal by Clive Palmer to provide electricity to Galilee Basin coalmines planned by Palmer, Gina Rinehart and Adani.
Palmer鈥檚 Waratah Coal applied to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation on February 24 to finance a 900MW coal generator that proposes to use an unproven technology: carbon capture and storage.
The plan is to bury the emissions from the coal plant in the Galilee Basin, 鈥渟equestered鈥 in an 鈥渦n-mineable鈥 area of coal seams one kilometre underground.
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