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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GetUp, which describes itself as a one-million member movement striving to put the people back into Australian politics, has started the election campaign by describing incumbent Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a “failed or absent” leader. According to GetUp, through three years of bushfires, drought, floods and the pandemic, everyday […]
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According to Australia’s peak social services body, the Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS), the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes an urgent call for faster emissions reduction and targeted polices to benefit “people with the least”. The report warns that without immediate and deep […]
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Incoming Greens Member of the Legislative Council, Sue Higginson, met with the NSW Premier and Deputy Premier today in her hometown of Lismore and told them it was time for a state-wide assessment of climate risk and community-led solutions. She spoke with Jackie Pearson. She says her community desperately needs […]
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