posts on politics
When I joined the Australian Labor Party in 2004, I was quickly labelled as a “stack” by people within the ALP because of my Chinese ethnicity. Fast-forward to 2018: I am disappointed to see nothing has changed. While branch stacking remains a major problem, it is concerning when some in the party persist in assuming[…]
By Wesa Chau; Erin Watson-Lynn. University of Melbourne alumna and 2013 ALP Candidate for Higgins; Liberal Party Member, WA and Victoria Key points: Australian Labor Party candidates won four of the five federal by-elections held yesterday, with an Independent taking the fifth. The Coalition government retains its one-seat majority in the House of Representatives. In[…]
The 2016 federal election is seen by many as an election where the highest number of women candidates stood for the two major parties: 59 for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and 44 for the Coalition. While this is excellent progress, we need to ask ourselves how many women are elected in safe seats. A[…]
As the 2016 Federal election is approaching, it is timely we talk about the Australian political system and how it works, and what it all means. It was not until I ran as an Australian Labor Party (ALP) candidate in the 2013 election that I realised many of my friends of culturally diverse backgrounds (especially[…]
有很多人問我怎樣才能融入澳大利亞主流社會，為什麼有時候有升職機會的時候總不是自己？
Vale Joan Kirner, our 42nd premier who recently sadly died from cancer at the age of 76. She was also Victoria’s first and only female premier. Joan Kirner became an activist after becoming concerned with large classroom sizes, which motivated her to be politically active. One of her legacy was overseeing the introduction of the[…]
The tension in Hong Kong has escalated and sparked a city-wide lock-down forcing the Hong Kong Police to use tear-gas to control the protests and bringing the Asian financial hub to a stand-still. The protests even spread to a number of global cities such as Melbourne, with Hong Kong students protesting outside the State Library[…]