My Final Speech |
I'm giving my final Valedictory speech in the Senate this coming Wednesday evening, around 6pm. News Radio should be broadcasting the Senate at that time, or you can listen in online through www.aph.g...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:25:00 PST |
McClellan whacks Bush, White House - Mike Allen - Politico.com |
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10649.ht...
Bushs' former press secretary refuses more truths about the Iraq invasion disgrace: there was a "failure to be open and forthright on Iraq and rus...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Wed, 28 May 2008 09:27:00 PST |
A sporting chance for refugees |
After some of the public attacks on refugees from Africa which occurred in the lead up to last years election for allegedly 'not integrating', with the worst inferences being targeted at young males, ...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Mon, 26 May 2008 07:50:00 PST |
Hearing Matters |
Over two years ago, I wrote a piece on this blog about hearing loss. I've raised it once or twice in speeches and in the Senate since then, but it's still an issue which doesn't have a particularly hi...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Thu, 22 May 2008 04:30:00 PST |
Politics & Technology (& blogging) conference in Canberra |
On June 25, during my final sitting week in Parliament, I'll be speaking at a Politics & Technology conference organised by Microsoft. You can see all the speakers and panellists at thi...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Mon, 26 May 2008 07:49:00 PST |
Kentucky Coal |
Kentucky is fleetingly in the news today because of the US Presidential primaries, but I wish there was more attention being paid to the extraordinarily destructive coal mining that has been going on ...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Wed, 21 May 2008 04:44:00 PST |
US soldier refuses to serve in ’illegal Iraq war’ |
A US soldier has appeared at Congress, stating his refusal to serve in Iraq, citing grounds that the US military presence there "is unconstitutional and illegal."
Sergeant Matthis Chiroux had already ...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Mon, 19 May 2008 04:45:00 PST |
US soldier refuses to serve in ’illegal Iraq war’ |
A US soldier has appeared at Congress, stating his refusal to serve in Iraq, citing grounds that the US military presence there "is unconstitutional and illegal."
Sergeant Matthis Chiroux had already ...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Sat, 17 May 2008 12:12:00 PST |
End to TPV cruelty in sight |
I have a done a separate post/speech on some of the broader issues in the Budget. One other small but very important measure which I wanted to make specific mention of was the formal confirmation that...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:26:00 PST |
Budget views |
There is heaps of commentary on the Budget on a myriad of different websites - a couple I found of interest are here, here and here.
Rather than write my views about it in detail here, I'll just ...
Posted by Senator Andrew Bartlett on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:25:00 PST |
