Australia is lurching headlong into a political scandal of the worst order. The current Speaker of the House of Representatives (the lower house in our bicameral parliamentary system), Peter Slipper [wiki],…
A couple of interesting things in the news this week that I'll contrive to cobble together. First, earlier this week the Queen visited Australia. Not Sydney, mind you. It resulted…
Julia Gillard [wiki], the Prime Ministern, getting a roasting from phone-in king Alan Jones [wiki]. Gillard had clearly promised before the last election that there would be no "carbon tax" introduced by…