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Western Australian Councillor Linda Aitken has been chosen by state Liberal Party members as the preferred candidate for the seat of Pearce. The City of Wanneroo Councillor will replace outgoing former Attorney-General Christian Porter as the Liberal's preselected candidate.
December, 2021
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21 December
Republic of Western Australia: From secession to COVID, the west has always charted its own course
After closing itself off for nearly two years of the pandemic, Western Australia seems finally ready to reopen — although its long-harboured secessionist dreams will likely never die, writes David Lee.
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21 December
Chief Medical Officer urges state and territory leaders to mandate masks
An emergency national cabinet meeting will be held on Wednesday amid rising numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to the Omicron variant.
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21 December
Fury over claim that No 10 wine party was ‘necessary meeting’
Cabinet minister Dominic Raab came under fire on Monday for arguing that a picture of Boris Johnson in the Downing Street garden with aides enjoying wine and cheese during lockdown last year showed a “”.
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21 December
Greens urge Victorian Government to support their 'raise the age' bill
The Victorian Greens have backed calls from the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Victoria from 10 to 14. The Greens have been campaigning on the issue for a number of years alongside First Nations communities and human rights groups,
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21 December
Joe Manchin demands that only parents working and making less than $200,000 get the full child tax credit — otherwise he’ll tank it
Manchin's 'no' stance on Build Back Better means the Dec. 15 child-tax-credit payment could be the last one families ever see.
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21 December
"I'm back" says Lula, vowing a broad alliance ahead of Brazil election
Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is currently leading in the polls ahead of next year's election, said if reelected he would seek to build a broad range of alliances in a bid to unite a deeply polarized country.
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21 December
Why COP26's failure to tax multinationals could be its biggest missed opportunity
But COP26 neither put its finger on the problem, nor found the best way forward. We know what we need to do, and we know how to do it, too. The problem is how to pay for it. The global transition to a low-carbon economy will not come cheap.
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21 December
The Coalition's shameful grants must be exposed for what they are
The Liberal Party's reputation as the party of fiscal rectitude and guardian of the taxpayers' hard-earned money took a battering with this month's revelations about the distribution of $2.8 billion across 11 federal grants schemes in the three years straddling the 2019 election.
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21 December
War without winners: Taiwan presents a trap for both China and US
China could contemplate seizing the island to demonstrate American decline. But world reaction to such a breach of the peace would likely be great. One can more or less take it as read that the United States does not want to go to war with China over Taiwan,