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 [...]
Question time: The classical philosophy edition
Parliament goes into recess next week, after a sitting whose most prominent contribution to political discussion was the unruliness of question time (aside, of course, from the usual shenanigans of opposition disunity, which are now customary). Writing in Crikey yesterday, [...]
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