Keep the Bastards Honest

On this episode National Vice President and podcast host Elana Mitchell talks to Young Democrats Rhiannon Kernot (no relation) and Bianca Hogeveen about what politics means for young people, and particularly young women, in Australia, and the issues that young people are passionate about. Hint: it’s much more than climate change. They also break down what’s involved with being a Young Democrat, th...

On Friday 1 st October 2021 NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian suddenly resigned both from her role as Premier and as a member of the NSW parliament after the Independent Commission against Corruption announced that they were opening an investigation into whether she had breached the public trust during her dealings with her then secret boyfriend and corrupt former MP Daryl Maguire. National vice pres...

Former Attorney General Christian Porter has somehow managed to weather being accused of an historical rape (which he vehemently denies), suing the ABC for defamation and then settling the case without requiring the ABC to accept responsibility or apologise, and has now resigned his cabinet position because he accepted an anonymous donation from a blind trust to pay his presumably hefty legal bill...

On the 26 th of August a bill was passed that had fairly large ramifications for the 40 odd minor parties that don’t currently have a representative in the federal parliament.  The Party Registration Integrity Bill, or as Twitter has named it, the Party Pooper Bill (#PartyPooperBill) will triple the minimum membership numbers required for minor parties to either maintain their federal registration...