As the Citizens Electoral Council has exposed, the Australian government’s extensive police-state powers, which last week were used to raid journalists, are intended not to protect people from terrorism, but to protect the establishment from the p
There are numerous reasons Bill Shorten’s Labor failed to convince Australians to elect them to solve their problems, but there is one obvious reason. Inexplicably, Labor let Scott Morrison off the hook on the banks.
The collusion of Liberal and Labor in rejecting the need for banking separation in a recent Senate inquiry, and in luring first home buyers into a plunging housing market debt trap, shows that business-as-usual has returned to the banking system.