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August 9, 2024

Bangladesh at a crossroad after Hasina’s resignation – here’s what could happen next

Rashaad Shabab, University of Sussex

Bangladesh has avoided total collapse, but what step the country takes next remains to be seen.

A review found some comments made by NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski were ‘not consistent’ with caretaker conventions. Julian Smith/AAP

June 15, 2016

NBN Co says it was protecting staff morale in caretaker breach

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

NBN Co has strongly defended itself after Martin Parkinson found that its chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, breached the pre-election caretaker conventions.

Bill Shorten was correct to ask for access to senior public servants amid confusion over whether the ‘caretaker period’ has begun. AAP/Dan Himbrechts

May 2, 2016

Election explainer: when does the government enter caretaker period and what does it mean?

Gabrielle Appleby, UNSW Sydney

It is unusual to invoke the caretaker conventions so far out from an election. So why is Labor clamouring for them to kick in?

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron outside Number 10 Downing Street, where he’ll be able to remain should there be a hung parliament. EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga

April 10, 2015

If the UK parliament is hung again, Cameron can squat at Number 10

Jennifer Menzies, Griffith University

Britain looks set for another hung parliament after the May 7 election – a prospect that gets people surprisingly muddled. Australia could teach Britain’s leaders a lesson in caretaker governments.

Now that governor-general Quentin Bryce has issued the writs for the election and dissolved parliament, the government is in caretaker mode. But what does this mean? AAP/Alan Porritt

August 7, 2013

Explainer: what are the caretaker government conventions?

Anne Twomey, University of Sydney

The Coalition has raised concerns that the Memorandum of Understanding with Papua New Guinea over the Manus Island asylum seeker processing deal was entered into after the caretaker conventions commenced…

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