The Australian Labor Party has promised to partner with the South Australian Labor government to expand Adelaide’s health capacity to tackle the city’s ambulance ramping crisis if elected in the upcoming May 21 federal election. Under the partnership, a $400 million (US$283 million) expansion of Flinders Medical Centre, with 160 new beds for the south…
Australian Opposition Promises to Partner with South Australia to Tackle Ambulance Ramping
May 9, 2022
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Liberals Planning National Policy Convention for May of Next Year
OTTAWA—Liberals plan to gather for a national convention in Ottawa in the spring of next year. The Liberal Party of Canada says the convention, to take place in the national capital May 4−6, 2023, will also include some virtual participation. The meeting will feature policy discussions, keynote speakers, training and the election of the party’s…
Dissenting MPs Could Mean Liberal Caucus Is Preparing for a Leadership Ouster
Commentary Conservative politicians tend to break ranks and take stances contrary to their own party leadership quite regularly. Toward the end of Erin O’Toole’s tenure as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MPs within his own caucus were speaking out about his leadership constantly. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney can’t seem to make it…
We’re Used to Dissenting Tory MPs; When Liberals Dissent, We Need to Take Notice
Commentary Conservative politicians tend to break ranks and take stances contrary to their own party leadership quite regularly. Toward the end of Erin O’Toole’s tenure as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, MPs within his own caucus were speaking out about his leadership constantly. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney can’t seem to make it…
Former Liberal Ministers Speak Out in Support of Liberal MP Who Criticized His Party’s COVID Policies
Former Liberal cabinet ministers previously expelled from caucus for expressing dissenting views have come out in support of Liberal MP Joël Lightbound, who recently criticized the position of his party on its COVID-19 policies, approach, and discourse. “Glimmers of democratic independence from MPs in Ottawa (Canada needs a wave of this),” said former minister of…
Liberal MP Breaks Ranks, Calls for End of ‘Divisive’ COVID Policies
Liberal MP Joël Lightbound gave a solo press conference this morning to call on his own government to lift COVID-19 restrictions and to change its “divisive” tone on the issue. Taking an opposing stance to his party’s leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Lightbound said legitimate concerns about restrictive policies should not be dismissed and governments…
South Australian Opposition Leader Calls for a Ban on Political Donations
South Australian Opposition Leader Peter Malinauskas has called for a ban on what he calls the “arms race” of political donations. Speaking to the ABC this week, Malinauskas said he’s been on the record for over a decade expressing his concern that political parties and candidates, not only in Australia but right across the Western…
Quebec Will Backtrack on Unvax Tax: Provincial Liberal Health Critic
Quebec’s Liberal party opposition says it believes the government’s plan to tax adults who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will soon be reversed. Liberal health critic Monsef Derraji says he expects the idea will be abandoned the same way the province backtracked on its plan to force health care workers to get vaccinated or…
Fringe Politics Threatens More Harm Than Good to Australia’s Democracy
December 13, 2021
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Commentary Buffeted by the stormy blasts of COVID-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government rolled and rocked at times like the Manly ferry in a tempest. And now as he prepares to go to the polls in the first half of 2022, Morrison will be hoping that voters will reward him for his efforts by sending…
Vic Opposition Leader Promises ‘No More Lockdowns’
Victorian Opposition leader Matthew Guy has pledged Victoria won’t go back into lockdown if his government wins the next state election. “Lockdowns have hurt our community. They’ve hurt people, our kids, our state,” he said at the Liberal Party’s official election campaign launch in Dandenong on Nov. 27. ” Over 90 percent of us are…
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