A leaflet campaign across a number of east coast electorates defending marriage and children’s rights, organised by supporters of the Australian Family Association (AFA), attracted a strong media interest during the federal election. The AFA has had a long-standing public policy supporting marriage, which is defined in Australian law as the union of one man…
It sometimes takes a devastating defeat to shake a political party out of its complacency and torpor and to force it to undertake a re-examination of the fundamentals from the ground up. Surely that moment has come for Labor. With total devastation at state levels, particularly in Queensland and New South Wales, and now a…
This comment had to be written before the September 7 election took place; but it will be read when the outcome is known. Nevertheless, the election of a Coalition government led by Tony Abbott looks certain. Such a government will have a strong mandate to deliver on its promises: fiscal restraint, the abolition of Labor’s…
