‘We’ve had one policy; we landed it, a 2030 target of 43 per cent, net zero by 2050, both of them legislated’, said Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, on 10 June, 2024.

Anthony Albanese’s recent performance on the world stage in New York was a breathtaking piece of rhetorical acrobatics.

Last week the government demonstrated its flagrant disregard for science and common sense; from Washington to Palau, and from Canberra to Darwin.

Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising. 

LGNSW President Mayor Darcy Byrne has warmly welcomed the Albanese government’s announcement on the weekend to restore adequate funding to councils across Australia to address the financial crisis in local government.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally announced some gambling advertising reform this week, tucked into the end of a speech to the National Press Club with a principal focus on Australia's response to the fallout from the war in Iran, the day after he appeared on national television networks telling Australians not to panic.

On the day that five members of the Iranian women's soccer team were given humanitarian visas to protect them from possible persecution in Iran, the Albanese government introduced legislation which would have prevented them from entering Australia in the first place.

Desperate to distract attention from the Epstein files, and retain his faltering grip on domestic power, US 'Peace President' Donald Trump has attacked another sovereign country, and murdered its leader, along with numerous others, and Australia's prime minister is apparently fine with that.

By popular request, the summer holidays of Australia's federal parliamentarians have been cut short, but many of His Majesty's (Rupert's) Loyal Opposition are already regretting what they wished for.

Is it better to be friends with the biggest bully in the schoolyard, regardless of how he behaves? So far, Australia has always answered yes. But what if the bully's trappings of democracy, order, science and reason fall away?