Alex Antic’s grassroots victory offers the Liberals a lifeline, but overturning it would turn renewal into revolt.
When the Senate protects unaccountable power, the government must turn off the money.
Power must return to those whom the Australian people can remove.
Our parliament has survived many tests with little change. The current political panic has brought in useless symbolism.
It's been a long time since I watched parliament live.
After nearly fourteen years in the Senate, I haven't missed it for a day since leaving eighteen months ago. Sure, I miss a few of the people but none of the cut and thrust of politics.
Yesterday I happened to tune in to the television broadcast and I was shocked by how much it had changed. From an insiders perspective it looked like another world to the one I worked in.
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