Bob Katter is a lot of things. But despite white supremacists trying to claim him in an email campaign, he’s not a racist. Anthony Galloway, a reporter at The Northern Miner, writes from Charters Towers.
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Political snippets: A gun example
Labor learned one thing from the defeat of Barrie Unsworth’s government all those years ago — it is not the opinions of a sensible majority that matters on election day but the militant minority who feel strongly about an issue.
Katter’s party to shake up Queensland poll
In the eyes of some, the emergence of Bob Katter’s Australian Party has the potential to shake up what had loomed as a predictable Queensland state election, due around March.
The Power Index The man behind Katter’s AEC party name rejection
The man responsible for ending the possibility of Bob Katter abbreviating his Katter’s Australian Party name to “Australian Party” is David Doe, a man who has been highly active in the video games censorship debate, writes Angela Priestley.
The campaign cashpoint pays out
The votes have been totted up, and now the Electoral Commission is doling out the dosh. The final public funding figures were announced by the AEC yesterday, with seven parties and 15 independent candidates divvying up $49,002,638.51 between them, writes Christian Kerr.
The campaign lottery pays out
The votes have been totted up, and now the Electoral Commission is doling out the dosh. The initial public funding figures were announced by the AEC yesterday, with seven parties and 15 independent candidates getting lucky, writes Christian Kerr.
Abjorensen: Meet the ranking conservative politician in Australia … a Labor minister
For a few weeks in the years 1939 and 1941 and again over the mid-summer weeks of 1967-68 the most senior conservative politician in Australia was the leader of the Country Party. So, with the Coalition facing possible defeat, who is the ranking conservative politician in Australia?
Abjorensen: What fate John Howard?
John Winston Howard has a thing or two on his mind at the moment, quite apart from being Prime Minister of Australia. He is fighting not one, but many battles, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Pauline Hanson: the Kylie Mole of xenophobia
Ok the gig is up. It’s time for the comedian playing Pauline Hanson to step forward from behind the mask and accept the plaudits she (he?) deserves.
