We can only caution the eager student politician that might be reading this masthead: that a seat in parliament is not the end goal; that true power comes from down below, from the grassroots; and betrayal is not forgotten.
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You, and only you, are the sole arbiter of exactly how your preferences are numbered. Even if your first preference does not win, preferencing them can send a signal to the other parties on your ballot.
The Act decreed that “the University of Sydney shall be entitled to return a Member” to the Legislative Assembly upon accruing a body of 100 graduates, who would form the electorate.
How the 2022 election heralded a double-barrelled bonanza.
Why is Australian politics so awful, why does Labor not enact progressive policies, and how do we start to fix it? Jacqui Lambie (purportedly) has the answer.
He’s a true blue Aussie—sorry—Kiwi battler
In a pointed rebuke of the University of Sydney, former NSW arts minister Peter Collins has slammed the decision to move SCA away from its Rozelle campus, as Tom Joyner reports.