Tag: ALP

• Bursting Balloons and Other Party Tricks

  AUSTRALIAN POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2022 With an extra 2.1 percent in their pockets, courtesy of the biannual indexation of the age pension and payable from Mar. 20, older Australians will have been celebrating, won’t they? Just asking. The increase was eaten up a long time ago, in higher food and petrol…

  8degreesoflatitude

  March 22, 2022

  Australia, Current affairs, Politics

  Age Pension, ALP, Anthony Albanese, Budget, Election 2022, Josh Frydenberg, Kimberley Kitching, Liberals, Scott Morrison, South Australia

• Get Set for the Merry-go-round

  AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 It’s election year. This may not fill our hearts with glee. But it will certainly fill our minds with polly waffle and expose us to more photo opportunities than we would wish upon our worst enemies. Such, unfortunately, is the business of modern electioneering: Never mind the content, feel…

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 11, 2022

  General Interest

  2022 election, ALP, Anthony Albanese, Coalition, Scott Morrison