Commonwealth of Australia. January to June 2005

In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 578-627

Abstract

The party politics between the Howard government & the Backbench Coalition are related in a narrative of the developments beginning with the failure of the Federal Labor party's 2004 candidate, Mark Latham. Impacts on the political makeup of the Senate resulting from actions of the Coalition Backbench through the restructuring of immigration policy, recentralization of health policy, tax cuts & the departure of Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson have resulted in a "clean-out"of the upper house. The Coalition's working majority was perceived by the public as an assumption of power, the character of the Coalition government is revealed in their labeling of emails protesting the assumption of power as a new form of electronic "spam.". J. Harwell