Climate change is being used by the Government to wedge the Opposition mercilessly, in far more savage a fashion than John Howard ever managed to do to Labor on refugees or national security.
Harry Evans
Queensland clerk: political culture is sick
In a scathing 17,500-word call for reform, Neil Laurie, Clerk of the only legislative chamber in Queensland’s Parliament, has suggested the current political culture is in some ways worse than the pre-Fitzgerald era, says Andrew Bartlett. Full submission can be found here.
Harry Evans: my 40 years of Canberra joy
Harry Evans, Retiring Clerk of the Senate, has seen it all. In a speech to be delivered in Canberra today, he reflects on his time at the helm of a stuffy institution still in need of serious reform.
