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Ten bonus points to the Leader who will refrain from repeating the same phrases over & over again, I and my fellow voters are NOT morons.

The Australian Labor Party are supposed to be the advocate for the 'battler', are not the LGBT Community that is persecuted, the Struggling Single Mothers, and the Socially disadvantaged who will be hurt by your new bill the 'battlers' you are supposed to be protecting?

The recent restructure of the Queensland Police force has starkly highlighted the very serious problem of how slavish adherence to party politics actually hurts democracy. What has happened on the Sunshine Coast where we are losing our Regional Police headquarters to be run from an office 500km away is [...]

Is Tony Abbot rushing off to help fight bushfires really helpful? I am aware that Mr Abbott has been part off of the Davidson Rural Fire Brigade as a volunteer since 2000, because the *Australian kindly informed me.

Liberal, Labor, Green or even bloody Purple, the people of the Sunshine Coast need to have some answers, at the very least, they need some questions asked...

Voting, Compulsory vs Voluntary – has gone off... Wayne Swan had a spray at the Sunshine Coast Uni and this morning Barnaby Joyce has been out there warning us all that “Scrapping compulsory voting would be a boost for extremists” (could those ‘extremists’ he is referring to be Bob Katter [...]

Call me cynical, but when a Government decides out of the blue that “Fair and effective electoral laws are central to the promotion of participation in our democracy” (see Jarrod Bleijie press release here), I am suspect. I have not heard anyone yelling about anything wrong with our Electoral [...]

Back to the Twilight Zone... It seems that it is now acceptable that whenever our Prime Minister addresses the nation, so does the Opposition Leader? I am not quite sure when this started, though I did notice it at the ceremony when our Olympians came home and it is seriously not a good look! A bit of [...]

It would be hard for any human being to not feel for the horrific attack on the young woman in India recently. We don't know this woman's name, though I sick of her being referred to as 'the rape victim', and will not define her as such in this article, she is a 'human being' who has been abused beyond [...]