Reports of people held at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) being forcibly moved to the Christmas Island detention centre last week have been called “concerning” by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre as the facilities on the island are woefully inadequate and harmful. The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has […]
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NSW Shadow Environment Minister Penny Sharpe visited the site of the Mangrove Mountain landfill, that was recently the subject of a complex Land and Environment Court judgement, to declare that the right thing would be “no more dumping” at the site but the landfill owner appears to have other ideas. […]
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The sale of community assets including environmental land, rate hikes and service cuts are expected to continue on the NSW Central Coast even though the public was told the merger between its two old councils in 2016 would result in a “mega council” with a seat at the table to […]
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If climate change doesn’t end up devouring the Central Coast, the interest on commercial loans negotiated at the end of 2020 may drown the region’s debt-riven Council, Jackie Pearson reports in part three of this series on the Coast’s local government (or lack thereof). “If you torture numbers long enough, […]
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The National Parliament of Australia should be the workplace of our best and brightest – not only those elected to office but those who serve as staff – and it should be a safe workplace. Jackie Pearson looks at the work being done to implement the recommendations made by Sex […]
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What happens when a community decides to get politically active and run a campaign forum focused on core issues rather than candidates? Well, for starters, the major parties don’t turn up. An election campaign forum with a twist, held at Tuggerah’s Red Tree Theatre in regional NSW on Sunday, May […]
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The federal electorate of Boothby is the only marginal seat in South Australia and, if the results of the March state government election are anything to go by, social issues may loom large. On the eve of the South Australian state election, we talked to CEO of SA Council of […]
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Jackie Pearson continues to examine what it is like to live without an elected local government, this time looking at the report of Commissioner McCulloch who conducted the public inquiry into the “financial crisis” which resulted in Central Coast Councillors being suspended and then sacked. McCulloch’s public inquiry report stuck […]
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Part 1 – setting the scene… Jackie Pearson examines what life is like living in a NSW Local Government Area that doesn’t have an elected local government. The residents and ratepayers of the Central Coast have been ‘governed’ under an administrator for 42 months out of the past 80 (that’s […]
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With one month to go until Australia decides to keep the Morrison Government, elect an Albanese Government, or votes for enough independents to hang the parliament, a social justice issue – the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) – has finally made campaign headlines. It is a widely accepted fact that […]
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