Three items of electoral relevance to emerge amidst the New Year news and polling drought:
• Paul Sakkal of The Age reports Stephanie Hunt, corporate lawyer and former legal adviser to Julie Bishop and Marise Payne, will seek Liberal preselection for Goldstein, which Tim Wilson hopes to recover after losing to independent Zoe Daniel in 2022. Wilson remains the front-runner, in the estimation of a further report in The Age today.
• Lydia Lynch of The Australian reports Margie Nightingale, former teacher and policy adviser to Treasurer Cameron Dick, is the front-runner to succeed Annastacia Palaszczuk in her seat of Inala, the by-election for which is “tipped to be held in March”. Palaszczuk’s former deputy chief-of-staff, Jon Persley, had long been mentioned as her likely successor, but he has withdrawn from contention, saying the party’s gender quota rules played a “big factor” in the decision.
• Sue Bailey of the Sunday Tasmanian reports that veteran former Liberal Senator and conservative stalwart Eric Abetz will seek state preselection in the division of Franklin for an election due in June next year, assuming Jeremy Rockliff’s government is able to keep the show on the road that long.
“We are not the ones who call it Invasion Day. They coined the term themselves.”
It is just a fact.
My suggestion was that if your real focus, as your post seemed to indicate, it the public holiday, why would you care what the public holiday is called? Then I suggested that you lot could make a positive contribution to a real Australian day when we fix a date for everyone, not just those who celebrate the horrors of colonisation, a day of inclusion and coming together and inspiring a collective future, by staying at home and keeping silent.
WeWantPaul says:
Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:48 pm
You answered yourself:
“ recognition and granting a voice”.
The proposed Voice to both the Parliament and Executive Government was significantly beyond recognition. The undefined intended and unintended consequences of the impact of Administrative Law on decision makers and a potentially activist High Court (such as seen in the Love and Thom cases) were too much of a risk for the rest of Australia.
“ those who celebrate the horrors of colonisation”
Who does that?
Who?
“ , a day of inclusion and coming together and inspiring a collective future”
That’s exactly what it is now.
” The undefined intended and unintended consequences of the impact of Administrative Law on decision makers and a potentially activist High Court (such as seen in the Love and Thom cases) were too much of a risk for the rest of Australia”
Absolute complete rubbish. There is a couple of words for it, but I’ve already used them.
“That’s exactly what it is now.”
No by the choice of the date it could never ever possibly be that, it never was and it never will be. The more racist right wing fascists focus their culture wars around it the less of a day of unity it is. +
There is just no escaping that you can’t hate someone so much you want to force them to celebrate the day dispossession, suffering and death came to their shores as a day of unity and coming together. It is the typical ‘I’m going to beat you until you smile’ bastardy, only worse, it has never, can never and will never work.
nath at 11.47 pm
Quite prescient, and your informed analysis applies north of the Tongala (Murray) River just as well.
WeWantPaul says:
Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:08 am
You are entitled to your opinion. Legal advice and opinion and Judicial rulings are never set in stone or black and white, as so many found to their surprise in both the Pell and Thom/Love decisions by the High Court. There is always risk.
Party like it’s 1979:
‘Teletext lives on in Sweden thanks to nostalgia and trusted content’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/11/teletext-lives-on-in-sweden-thanks-to-nostalgia-and-trusted-content
‘A Florida school district … decided to remove copies of dictionaries, encyclopedia and other books because the works included descriptions of “sexual conduct”.’
‘DeSantis’ is almost an anagram of ‘sanitised’ …
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/florida-schools-ron-desantis-ban-books-sexual-content
‘Katy Gallagher, then in opposition, told the Senate a Labor government “will ensure an inquiry into the circumstances of the intelligence operation conducted by the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in Timor-Leste, and the subsequent decision to prosecute Witness K and his lawyer Mr Bernard Collaery”.’
What Katy did next …
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/12/labor-shelves-election-promise-for-inquiry-into-prosecution-of-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery
Less (or is it fewer?) inquiries is the new black.
New thread.
rosssmcg & others.
The change from the Australia Day Long Weekend occurred in 1988 in order to celebrate the Buy-Centennial of Colonisation.
It was gazetted that Australia Day was to be commemorated on the 26th January, from that day forth.
By chance, this year the 26th is a friday and the “traditional long weekend” will be back.