ARTICLE: WHY ‘CHAPTER II: THE EXECUTIVE’ IN OUR CONSTITUTION NEEDS AN OVERHAUL

“Our defence minister – who probably doesn’t know how to fire a gun”

“He’s a Labor Party lifelong hack.”

This was the Hon. John Ruddick MLC speaking of Australia’s Defence Minister, Richard Marles, at the inaugural Australians for Better Government forum, held recently in Sydney.

ARTICLE: LABOR’S ‘WIN FOR THE AGES’

Labor’s win at the 2025 Federal election was a ‘win for the ages’ as declared by the Guardian and a ‘landslide victory’ by many other media outlets.

Remarkably, Labor increased its representation in Parliament, which is opposite to all first-term Governments of the past 50 years.  

Labor won 94 of 150 seats in the House of Representatives, or 62.7%; the highest percentage since 1996.