Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
Rebecca McCallion visits Party In The Park for Homelessness. The sun shone brightly as I walked through the gates of the Croquet Club in South Brisbane. ‘Pull!’ someone shouted and a group of people in front of me stepped backwards, revealing a rising marquee that quickly towered above them. I took a few minutes to Continue Reading →
Show your support adult survivors of childhood trauma and abuse Adults Surviving Child Abuse (ASCA) invites community members, churches, religious groups and leaders to organise and host events in support of Blue Knot Day, this October 28th and the week to follow until November 3rd 2013. With the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Continue Reading →
Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the broken promises, mass sackings, and frontline service cuts inflicted by the Newman Government appear to have influenced Queenslanders’ votes at Saturday’s federal election. “It seems the Newman Government’s poor performance has worked against the federal Coalition in Queensland,” Ms Palaszczuk said. “The Labor Party losses seen in other Continue Reading →
There was already a long line of eager voters for the 2013 federal election at West End State School today. While the voters were queueing pamphlets were handed out by the different parties, providing suggestions how they should cast their vote if their party appealed to them. All the political parties present were eager to Continue Reading →
By Ellen Hodgson Brown “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” — Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope Continue Reading →
Coalition broken aid promise further disillusions youth vote. Just twenty-four hours before polls open, thousands of young voters have met the Coalition’s broken promise on foreign aid with outcry. The Coalition announced yesterday that $4.5 billion in foreign aid increases would be cut should they form government. Viv Benjamin, CEO of the Oaktree Foundation, stated Continue Reading →