Priti Patel’s ultimate victory won’t be merely if Australia-style Rwanda flights ever take off. It will be if Labour sends them.
As the energy debate remains a pivotal concern for Australian voters, the imperative for both major parties to present viable and legitimate policy solutions has never been more critical.
If perceived as ineffective or lenient, British policies might inadvertently embolden people smugglers, exploiting vulnerabilities and misinformation.
Like the UK, the country is struggling with the issue of what can be done about unlawful non-citizens who cannot currently be deported and have committed serious crimes.
The No advocates believed that instead of creating an entirely new body at an additional expense, Canberra should fix the bodies that already exist by reviewing what is and isn’t working.
Fifty-five years ago, on the 8th, August 1968, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, one of the most unconventional and controversial twentieth-century conservative leaders, became the Premier of Queensland, Australia.
With the polls all pointing towards the defeat, the Government is spending millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money combatting “misinformation” – whilst insisting it isn’t funding the Yes campaign.
In government, Labor have so far confined themselves to gestures such as banishing His Majesty from the banknotes whilst relegating a referendum to a second-term issue.
There are lessons for Sunak and Braverman as they prepare to take on the people smugglers operating from the French coast.
While nobody disagrees with Constitutional recognition, advocates have no convincing case that such groups are under-represented in politics, nor that ordinary legislation could not remedy any grievances.
In the recent state election in Victoria, the party secured swings against Labor in all the wrong places.
Unless republicans can overcome their own divisions, and persuade a politically-cautious nation to embrace change, King Charles III’s grip on his second-largest realm looks secure.
Voters value stability. Our parties have made a national sport of ‘spills’, and been punished at the ballot box.
After nine years in government and three prime ministers, the right gave up on making a positive case – and paid the price at the ballot box.
To use Anthony Albanese’s own attack line while he was opposition leader, “everything is going up except wages”.