Anniversary of Australia’s first Magnitsky-style sanctions

Joint media release: Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Countering Foreign Interference Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs   Today, one year has passed since Australia’s Magnitsky-style and other thematic sanctions laws came into effect.   The new laws, passed by the Coalition with bipartisan support, enable Australia to…

ABC Radio – RN Breakfast

Topics: Delegation to Taiwan; AUSMIN; AUKUS; ANU election survey; Voice to Parliament; 7:35AM AEDT 6 December 2022 Patricia Karvelas: A cross-party delegation of Australian backbenchers are visiting Taiwan this week and it’s starting to cause a bit of a stir. Chinese state media, The Global Times, has written that the politicians from certain countries who…

Falling on their own sword

Ending what has been a sorry saga, the Coalition welcomes the Albanese Government’s backflip to reinstate the fourth Estimates week in the Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023. The attempt to axe a week of Senate estimates would never have happened in the first place if the Albanese Government was genuine in its claimed belief in…

Transparent as a brick wall

The Coalition and Senate crossbench will not tolerate the Albanese Government’s attempt to push through a Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023 without the usual four weeks of Senate estimates. The Opposition, along with the cross-bench, have written to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, stating that the Albanese Government must reinsert…

Hypocrisy at its finest

Today, hypocrisy is at its finest with the Albanese Government’s complete disregard for accountability on full display with the release of the Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023.   The absurdity of scrapping the first week of Estimates for the Senate is a deliberate avoidance of transparency by the Albanese Government.   Four Estimates weeks in…