Mar 27, 2010 | News Clippings
Governor-General Quentin Bryce has an exquisite problem: a treasure trove of more than 3000 bottles of fine wine. Ms Bryce, who drinks only sparingly and whose husband Michael is a teetotaller, doesn’t know what to do with the splendid cellars of expensive wines...
Mar 18, 2010 | News Clippings
A federal parliamentary committee has called for much tougher penalties for offences against the Electoral Act. The committee has handed down its report into some Liberals distributing fake pamphlets, which were damaging to Labor, in the seat of Lindsay during the...
Mar 13, 2010 | News Clippings
Medicare Australia has been forced to take on extra staff to cope with a rush of 107,000 home insulation rebate claims, filed during the last days of the Rudd Government’s dumped program. The claims for the $1200 rebate were filed during the program’s...
Feb 9, 2010 | News Clippings
The federal minister who oversees the public service is concerned it now employs fewer trainees and graduates than when Labor won office. Liberal senator Scott Ryan asked the Government yesterday why it hired fewer junior staff while the bureaucracy was...
Nov 8, 2009 | News Clippings
The Rudd Government has used new rules to begin censoring the proceedings of Parliament so no criticisms of the Government can reach voters. Under the rules, Opposition MPs have been prevented from using their taxpayer-funded postal allowances to send out speeches...
Oct 29, 2009 | News Clippings
Rules banning politicians from using their taxpayer-funded printing allowance to criticise the Government have been blasted as “censorship” and an “Orwellian . . . assault on democracy” by Coalition MPs. The rules were changed this month to...
