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The Government’s announced $6.5 million for global climate challenges is pathetic.

It is a wonder that the Minister for Foreign Affairs even bothered to put out a media release to announce such a paltry amount. He should be embarrassed to have called a press conference for so little.

Climate change is an especially real threat to the world’s poor. They are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and the least able to adapt to these changes.

The Howard government’s relationships with our Pacific neighbours have reflected a continuing pattern of inattention and failure interspersed with occasional bursts of belated and sometimes unsuccessful frenetic activity. We hear the Minister for Foreign Affairs trying to reshape the question to say that our criticism of the way he has handled the matter equals support for the actions of people overseas—that we are supporting the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea against Australia. Our concern is not that the Australian government has acted, but that it has acted incompetently. Our concern is not that the Australian government has spoken up about matters, but that it has spoken up in a manner that has been counterproductive.

This is a section of the photo mosaic of Parliament House which was presented to Bob McMullan. Peter Willmott created the mosaic from 191 seperate images, which were then assembled into the full mosaic.

Peter Willmott presents Bob McMullan with a special mosaic photograph of Parliament House, constructed from 191 seperate photographs. The mosaic is one of only five created.

This is a proposal for reforming the structure of the Australian Labor Party. It was written by Bob McMullan, and he has circulated it to ALP Members within the electorate of Fraser.

The Ten Percent System will give the Territories fairer representation in the Federal Parliament.

Speech given to the House of Representatives covering the topics of the Public Service efficiency dividend, the future of the Australian National University, and the Charter of Budget Honesty.

The Commonwealth Treasury has today supported Labor’s claim that privatising Telstra is not only bad for the nation – particularly for our outer suburbs and regions – but it is also bad for the Budget.