7-Eleven’s decision to take charge of the compensation process for underpaid workers highlights the problems with voluntary commitments and underlines the need for increased legal accountability.
The entire Senate is up for re-election in a double-dissolution election.
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What is a double-dissolution election? How does it differ from an ordinary election? And why the rush after the budget?
The government argues its industrial relations bills are necessary to deal with widespread corruption uncovered by the trade union royal commission.
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After a marathon debate the Senate has passed the government’s comprehensive rewriting of the upper house voting system, designed to limit the prospect of “micro” players being elected.
What does a formal ballot look like after the government’s Senate voting changes?
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With internal party ructions and an unco-operative Senate to manage, Malcolm Turnbull needs a convincing election win to be able to govern as he wants to.
‘As president, I will repeal every word of Obamacare,’ Ted Cruz proclaimed during the Feburary 25 GOP debate.
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The leading GOP candidates all claim one of their top priorities will be to repeal Obamacare. An architect of the original law outlines the thorny – but plausible – path to repeal.
The High Court is unlikely to be sympathetic to claims of discrimination against the microparties in the proposed Senate reforms.
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A suggested constitutional challenge to the Senate reforms through the High Court is unlikely to succeed.
Bill Shorten hopes Pat Dodson’s presence in the Senate will help on the debate over constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians.
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Pat Dodson, the father of reconciliation, is set to become a Labor senator for Western Australia following Joe Bullock’s surprise announcement that he is quitting.
So far, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has refused to endorse a candidate.
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Neither Democratic candidate for president has gotten the endorsement of Massachusetts’ junior senator. Here’s a look at Elizabeth Warren’s long game playbook.
Former AEC official Michael Maley has argued that optional preferential voting should apply to below the line Senate votes.
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A former official of the Australian Electoral Commission, Michael Maley, has attacked the government’s planned reform of Senate voting as internally inconsistent.
Who will join their ranks now – and when?
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Australia’s political system would be better off with more ordinary people and fewer career party politicians in the Senate. It would thus be more representative of ordinary Australians, not less.
The government’s changes to the Senate voting system will almost certainly pass with the support of the Greens and Nick Xenophon.
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Those who do understand the Senate voting system have the potential to wield some influence both in its conduct and in debates about how it might be reformed.
Ricky Muir, who entered the Senate with 0.51% of the vote in Victoria, delivering his maiden speech in March 2015.
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While the government boasts about engaging the community on the tax issue, it has avoided public debate as it seeks to muster the numbers for voting changes that would have sweeping implications for the…
Obama has some difficult steps to climb to appoint a justice to replace Antonin Scalia.
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