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Who needs the feds to fix federalism?
The premiers and chief ministers have gathered in Melbourne for the first all-Labor COAG meeting and health, indigenous affairs, business deregulation, housing, water and climate change are all expected to be discussed. But if the premiers want movement on these issues, why do they need to wait for the Commonwealth? asks Christian Kerr.
The Government’s bulging ad, sorry, information budget
The government has the biggest advertising budget of any organisation in the country. Luke McKenna and Thomas Hunter track where all the money is going.
Tips and rumours
The most interesting bet on sportingbet.com.au is the seat of Isaacs. Unlike every other seat, this betting market has not moved against the government. There is real talk that the ALP candidate Mark Dreyfus will be dumped. Put bluntly he has become electoral poison. The front page on the Herald Sun highlighting the fact he gets […]
Brough’s laws: a downside of the 1967 referendum
When, in 1967, Harold Holt’s government put to the Australian people a proposal to amend section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution so that the Commonwealth could make special laws with respect to Aboriginal people, the maverick Liberal MP Billy Wentworth warned that this could mean that in the future, a government could not only make laws to benefit Indigenous Australia, but also to disadvantage it. He was ignored.
Next to Brough, Abbott the picture of restraint
Another day of campaigning and another Commonwealth Government move in to an area traditionally controlled by the States.
Howard’s state deficit line doesn’t stand up
State government budget deficits are putting upward pressure on interest rates, the Prime Minister has claimed as a rate rise looms.
Despite saying rates should not be lifted next month, the Prime Minister is warning that the states will run up a $70 billion deficit over the next five years.
The bleak historical realities of Commonwealth control of Indigenous affairs
Rod Hagen worked in Alice Springs as an anthropologist in the 1970s, at the time when the Commonwealth relinquished control of the reserves and settlements. Its policies of paternalistic assimilation and integration left a legacy of misery that none would want to see repeated.
30 years of reports into Aboriginal Australia
We’re constantly told about the numerous reports over recent decades highlighting the state of Aboriginal Australia that have been ignored or filed away. Here’s Crikey’s list …
Darren Godwell: The buck now stops with the federal government
Finally there will be a clarity of lines of responsibility for achieving measurable, real improvements in the lives of indigenous peoples, writes Darren Godwell.
