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It began with an obscure opinion poll in mid-January conducted for the CFMEU, led in Victoria by former Labor stalwart turned vehement anti-Albanese force, John Setka.
Perhaps unsurprisingly this poll, conducted by a little-known polling company, of which scant details were released, found that the ALP could lose two heartland seats in the Hunter Valley. This was helpfully kicked along by Labor’s perennial thorn-in-the-side Joel Fitzgibbon, who quickly returned to his favourite and, it seems, his only, theme – coal – and his comments were circulated through NCA Newswire, Murdoch’s new newswire service. It was reported by other media as a leadership problem that now had to be dealt with, Albanese ‘forced to defend his position’, and the ‘Labor leadership crisis’ narrative had begun.
1970 and the living was easy… a family barbecues at the top of Black Mountain. Photo: ACT Archives
“Whatever the future holds, our wondrous capital city, rich with character, learning and politesse, is undoubtedly the place to be,” writes “The Gadfly” columnist
ROBERT MACKLIN.
ON New Year’s Day, after a splendid dinner with the extended family, we headed home along Adelaide Avenue. Suddenly, we were propelled back 50 years in time – there were so few cars on that beautiful smooth road that it was 1970 once again.
Robert Macklin.
That was when Canberra’s “rush hour” was 10 minutes around 8.30am and 20 from 4.53pm to 5.13pm. And the most dangerous time, we joked, was mid-morning when ladies of a certain age went shopping in their Morris Majors.
‘among the first’ to receive the world’s most promising vaccine?
“We could begin manufacturing it by year’s end.” Ho. Ho. Ho.
“NSW is the gold standard [of contact tracing]. I don’t spend too much time worrying about NSW.” Ho. Ho. Ho. Santa Morrison’s on top of his game.
The killing season segues into the silly season, a surreal appendix to our political advent calendar. Our coal-lobby’s PM,
a fossil with a baseball cap, Keating calls him, indefatigable self-promoter, Santa ScoMo, mugs for official photographer, Adam Taylor, a News Corp recruit hired to show a wholesome 1950s household ruled by a practical but pious, devoted Dad. If the Liberal Party is News Corp’s local political wing, Adam Taylor is its Leni Riefenstahl.
2020-12-18 14:55:03
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ Under the auspices of Speaker of the Parliament G.Zandanshatar, “Karakorum
800-year – History, Heritage” international scientific forum was held virtually
on December 17 at the National Library of Mongolia.
In his
letter sent to the conference attendees, Speaker G.Zandanshatar remarked that Karakorum
is not only the ancient capital of Mongolia but also precious historical and
cultural heritage to be honored and proud by Mongolians.
According to the history, Karakorum city, an incredible complex with combination of nomadic and sedentary civilization was political, cultural,
religious and trade hub that connected Asia and Europe in the peak of its prosperity. Therefore, conserving this rare and precious historic heritage, passing