His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.
His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.
In 2018 government senators voted for a motion declaring “It is OK to be white”. Though later disowned, at the time the vote was supported by the likes of Christian Porter and Matthias Corman. Only a few weeks ago our acting prime minister – Michael McCormack, the man who last year blamed the summer apocalypse on exploding horse shit – happily deployed the radical racist right slogan “All lives matter”. Our prime minister, when not on holiday, will happily tell Cricket Australia what to do rather than censure his own MP, Craig Kelly, who, in the week of the attack on the US Capitol – its home of democracy – repeated Trump’s big lie that the election he overwhelmingly lost was stolen. Trump was impeached, Kelly was protected.
Our enfeebled councils: the arm of government closest to the people is powerless to act for them
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Our enfeebled councils: the arm of government closest to the people is powerless to act for them
By Darcy Byrne
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Imagine you are the chairperson of a large organisation with an annual budget of $250 million, employing more than 1250 staff and delivering essential services to almost 200,000 people daily. Now, consider for a moment that, even though you and your 14 fellow board members are accountable for the actions of this body, your board has zero input into day-to-day operations, little say on how the chief executive runs it, and no oversight of senior management’s performance or employment.