Senate Voting Reform: Part 3 – Is this the Greens’ “GST moment”? (hint: No. No it’s not.)

17 March, 2016 / 9 Comments

I have read a range of comments by people asserting that the current controversy over the Greens support for repairing the Senate voting system will by the “Greens GST moment.” As I am well-qualified to say what a “GST moment” is like, I thought I’d explain why that is not even remotely close to what…

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10 Year anniversary of Harradine’s “I Cannot” GST speech

14 May, 2009 / 19 Comments

At 3:07 pm on Friday 14th May 1999, Senator Brian Harradine rose to address the Senate. As with this week ten years later, it was just after a federal Budget had been delivered – Peter Costello’s third. Unlike this week, discussion over the content of the Budget had been quickly subsumed by speculation over whether…

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Senate Voting Reform: Part 3 – Is this the Greens’ “GST moment”? (hint: No. No it’s not.)

10 Year anniversary of Harradine’s “I Cannot” GST speech