Category: Australian Labor Party

Australian PM Criticised for Support of Abortion Laws That Have Seen Born-Alive Babies Die

May 1, 2022
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been criticised for stating he is “proud” that Australia is “globally recognised” for its current sexual and reproductive health laws, which allows late term abortions without protections for babies born alive from the procedure. George Christensen, a former member of the Australian House of Representatives, on Saturday published a…

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Australia’s Labor Leader Avoids Questions About Party’s Cost of Living Plan

May 1, 2022
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Australian Labor Party’s leader Anthony Albanese has avoided questions regarding whether his party’s cost of living packages will continue to deliver benefits to households in one-year’s time amid rising interest rates that are expected to hinder the benefits from the proposals. It comes as handling the household budget becomes one of the most important election…

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Australian Labor Party’s Campaign Focus on Housing Affordability

April 30, 2022
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An impending interest rate rise and a new opposition shared equity plan to get thousands of people into homes has intensified the spotlight on property affordability. Federal Labor says the cost of buying a home will be slashed by up to 40 percent for about 10,000 low to middle income earners a year if it…

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Victorian Liberal Slam Labor’s Plans to Build Second Drug Injection Room

April 29, 2022
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The Victorian Liberals have slammed the state government’s plans to build a second drug injection room in metropolitan Melbourne, stating that it “must not go ahead” as the release of the consultation report on the second room gets further delayed. “Labor is focused on further destroying the CBD’s efforts to recover and rebuild by putting…

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Red Tape Will Strangle Labor Party’s Proposed DARPA-Lookalike: Defence Industry Expert

April 29, 2022
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The opposition Australian Labor Party’s promise to establish a dedicated military research agency—akin to DARPA in the United States—will simply spawn bureaucratic red tape and struggle to deliver actual results, according to defence industry expert Lincoln Parker. On April 28, shadow ministers from the centre-left Labor party pledged to establish a brand-new agency within the…

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Holmes à Court Independents Continue Long March of Green Neo-Socialism

April 27, 2022
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Commentary The Climate 200 group is running 22 “independents” in the Australian federal election to challenge the incumbent Coalition government from its left flank. With preferences for the Australia Labor Party (ALP), these “independents” have a real chance of winning a handful of inner-city seats in Sydney and Melbourne currently held by the Liberal Party. If…

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Who Are Australia’s Liberals?

April 26, 2022
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Commentary The 1987 election was the first I took an interest in. Seeing two politicians of conviction, Bob Hawke and John Howard, lay out their vision for this country in a real contest of ideas and philosophies, I became “hooked” on politics. As time went on, I realised that the centre-right Liberal Party had the…

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Australian Opposition’s Support for Beijing’s Pacific Ambitions Comes to Light

April 22, 2022
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Just months before Beijing signed a contentious security deal with the Solomon Islands, the Australian Labor Party’s deputy leader, Richard Marles, it has been revealed, advocated for the Chinese regime’s involvement in the Pacific. The comments from Marles, who is the former parliamentary secretary for Pacific Islands Affairs, were unearthed by The Australian newspaper on…

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Albanese Fails to Deliver Coup de Grâce for Australian Labor Party

April 18, 2022
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Commentary Australia’s 2022 federal election campaign has formally started. But if the truth be known, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has been running its election campaign for many, many months. To understand the opening gambits of the formal election campaign between the two main parties, it is worth unpacking what the ALP’s spin-team has been…

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Labor Vows to Fund 50 Urgent Medical Centres to Alleviate Strain on Public Hospital System

April 13, 2022
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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has vowed to fund 50 urgent medical care centres across the country if he wins government at the next election. The centre-left Labor Party leader said the AU$135 million plan was not a copy of a previous policy, saying it “wasn’t delivering the same service.” Albanese announced the four-year trial of…

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