The mathematics of the Speaker
Rob Oakeshott’s now abandoned candidacy for Speaker [see previous post here] has shone a light on the arcanae of the Speaker’s voting rights, and how they were envisaged to operate under the Parliamentary Reform Agreement the government and opposition both [...]
Text of the parliamentary reform agreement
… is to be found here. [Via Peter Martin]
Draft parliamentary reforms being negotiated by Independents
[Via Hayden Cooper on Twitter] The text of draft parliamentary reforms being negotiated by the Independents with both the ALP and the Coalition can be found here. Update: The SMH reports that Anthony Albanese says that Labor signed on to [...]
Julia Gillard’s address to the National Press Club today
For mine, Julia Gillard, in her address to the National Press Club this afternoon, summed up the actuality of the situation our national politics is in quite nicely: Neither party convinced Australians that it alone should shape the nation’s course [...]
What should a Gillard minority government be like?
If there’s one thing that’s clear from the events of recent days, it is that a minority government led by Julia Gillard could not represent business as usual for the Labor party. So what should a Gillard minority government look [...]
Guest post by Ben Harris-Roxas: The independents and parliamentary and public policy reform
Ben Harris-Roxas is a Research Fellow at the UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity. When he’s not talking about health impact assessment he makes a nuisance of himself on Twitter: @ben_hr. The entrails of the weekend’s result [...]
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