THE COMMENTARIAT
Scott Morrison tries to tame the political price of energy ($) — Jennifer Hewett (Australian Financial Review): “Coalition MPs still seem determined to make an unpalatable political hash of the government’s much battered energy policy. So the latest demand from some moderate Liberals of an extra $1 billion to be put aside for the Emissions Reduction Fund has all the hallmarks of a counter-productive initiative that would satisfy no one.”
Fallen PMs always blame the media, never look in the mirror — Peter Hartcher (Sydney Morning Herald): “Rudd calls it ‘the coup that killed politics’. He says that Australian politics has yet to recover as it lurches madly from one prime ministerial coup to another eight years later. So if my story was the catalyst for so momentous a change in national politics, I should address his claim that it was false.”
The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages — Ben Grimes (The Conversation): “After Yingiya Guyula was elected as a member to the NT Legislative Assembly in 2016, he rose to give his inaugural speech and started speaking in his first language, Yolngu Matha. Yolngu Matha is dominant language of Guyula’s electorate, and the third-most commonly spoken language in the NT. Nevertheless, he was interrupted by the speaker, Kezia Purick, because he wasn’t complying with recently enacted standing orders that placed barriers on speaking languages other than English in parliament.” |
