March 22, 2012 - News & Politics - 
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Future senior Queensland LNP minister Lawrence Springborg maintains close ties with the Assad regime in Syria, according to VEXNEWS. Apparently he even still raves about the country and defends Assad in private. But is the story even true?
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March 13, 2012 - News & Politics - 0
Bob Katter’s anti-gay marriage ad in Queensland is, according to conservative columnist Andrew Bolt, “openly and shamelessly appealing to homophobia.”
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February 9, 2012 - News & Politics - 0
Isi Liebler has come out firing, attacking the Israeli electoral system. I don’t necessarily agree with every premise in his piece but the thrust of it is on the mark. Leibler has the ear of the prime minister — let’s hope he’s listening, and that something changes soon. Not that I’m holding my breath.
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January 11, 2012 - News & Politics - 0
Journalist Yair Lapid has announced he’s quitting his TV show and entering politics. This is going to be the shake-up Israeli politics has been waiting for — a chance to re-align itself away from the settler movement and the hilltop youth and back towards focussing on the peace process, on work inside Green Line Israel, on education and healthcare. Lapid isn’t going to be the perfect politician, but his influence in politics, like his father’s before him, will, on balance, be a very positive one. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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December 31, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
The frustrations of the social justice protests and lack of progress on the peace process seem to be coming out, according to Ha’aretz: A new political party headed by Yair Lapid, Channel 2′s Friday news anchorman, would become the second largest party in the Knesset, should the journalist decide to enter politics, a recent poll conducted by Israel Radio revealed on Thursday. According to the poll, if Lapid chooses to [...]
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December 5, 2011 - News & Politics - 1
Bibi Netanyahu has announced primary elections for Likud earlier than expected, perhaps in the lead up to a general election perfectly timed to happen immediate before the US general election in November. Interesting times.
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August 14, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
The recent housing protests have breathed new life into the Israeli Labour Party, perhaps even saving it from devastation at the next election.
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August 1, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Akiva Eldar writes in Ha’aretz that somehow, Bibi’s various policies have united the whole of Israel against him, and now is the time for him to go.
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July 19, 2011 - News & Politics - 0
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing about Michele Bachmann for Bloomberg: Bachmann has built her foreign-policy platform on the nuance-free defense of Israel. She does this not because Israel is a strategic ally, or because it’s a democracy, but because the Bible states that God will curse those who betray it. At a recent meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, she said, “I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that [...]
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April 1, 2011 - News & Politics - 2
If you’re Bob Brown, you’re thinking the world might be coming to an end right about now. It seems the Greens are just as fractured and embattled with insider politics as everyone else, and Brown’s desperately trying to keep it all together. This morning’s Australian (see right) is adorned with a huge warning from Brown to Lee Rhiannon and the wider Greens membership: let’s not screw up this wonderful ‘balance [...]
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