Anthony Albanese’s Christmas present to Australia… or is it a lump of coal? PM’s ‘national ICAC’ PASSES Parliament and will be set up in a matter of months – here’s why critics aren’t happy Landmark National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation has finally passed Watchdog will be up and running early in the new years after passing … Read more
A number of Senate Republicans are publicly calling for next week’s leadership election to be delayed, as it’s still up in the air which party will control the upper chamber. Georgia is already headed for an early December runoff, while votes are still being counted in Arizona and Nevada. Republicans’ most likely path to the … Read more
Wall Street embraced the prediction of a red wave ahead of Tuesday’s midterms, with the Dow increasing for the third consecutive day after months of depressed rhetoric and recession fears. Soon after the opening bell, the Dow rose 115 points, or 0.35 percent, to 32,953. The S&P 500 gained 0.34 percent and the Nasdaq Composite ticked … Read more
President Joe Biden landed in Bali on Sunday evening ahead of a meeting with President Xi Jinping on Monday, after telling Asian leaders that the US’s lines of communication with China would stay open to prevent conflict. He arrived for a G20 summit on the Indonesian island – his third major summit in a round-the-world foreign policy … Read more
‘One election will not change that’: Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden STILL believes democracy is ‘under threat’ despite the Democrats’ surprise midterms night White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that President Joe Biden still believes democracy is still under threat ‘The president has been very clear that … he believes our democracy is still under … Read more
Outspoken conservative Senator Jacinta Price and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong have clashed in Parliament over a plan to appoint an ambassador to represent Australia’s Aboriginal people on the world stage. During a tense showdown at a Senate Estimates hearing this week, the Country Liberal Party MP told Ms Wong that as an Indigenous person … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Marco Rubio BEATS Democrat Val Demings in major Florida Senate race Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio was able to fend off a challenge from Democratic Representative Val Demings for his Senate seat Demings was attempting to unseat Rubio and turn a Florida Senate seat blue Rubio was ahead of Demings by 1 million … Read more
Senior Republican Rick Scott offered an optimistic assessment of his party’s chances in midterm Senate elections on Thursday, saying the G.O.P. could win 55 seats on its way to taking back the chamber. It puts the head of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm at odds with Mitch McConnell, the party’s leader in the chamber, who … Read more
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, 82, breaks his hip: One of the oldest members of Congress to undergo surgery after falling in his Virginia home Patrick Leahy, 82, fell at his Virginia home Wednesday evening and broke his hip His office said that the break requires him to undergo surgery Thursday morning Leahy is the fifth … Read more
The Alabama Senate race will advance to a runoff between Rep. Mo Brooks and Katie Britt, the former chief of staff for outgoing Sen. Richard Shelby. Britt was 15 points ahead of Brooks, but failed to capture 50 percent of the vote, triggering a runoff election on June 16. With over 95 percent of the … Read more
The White House wrote a letter Wednesday to both Dr. Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker – both of whom are running as Republicans for Senate this year – on behalf of President Joe Biden, demanding they resign from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition or be fired. Oz, 61, is the former host of a … Read more
Australia Post hands out $170k bonuses for some of its highest paid staff – and they’re paid for by YOU More than $170,000 in bonuses were given to highly paid Australia Post staff The Senate’s estimate committee heard one senior executive was paid $500k Australia Post defended payments as ‘short-term incentives’ rather than bonuses Payments … Read more
Bringing government to heel! Virginia’s Republican Lt. Gov Winsome Sears uses her patent leather STILETTO to bring state Senate to order after prankster stole gavel Virginia’s new Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears used her patent leather high heel to bring the state Senate to order Monday A prankster stole her gavel and hid it ‘One … Read more