Posted on June 24, 2010
Address to the Micah Challenge Forum 21 June 2010 Senator Russell Trood Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to be h... Read more...
Senator Faulkner is not giving a precise time frame for the troop drawdown (Defence Department: Hamish Paterson) Australian troo... Read more...
Posted on June 22, 2010
Motion moved in the Senate by Senators McEwen and Trood on 21 June 2010 Senator McEWEN (South Australia)—I, and also on behalf of Senator Tro... Read more...
Posted on June 17, 2010
Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers Senator TROOD (Queensland) (3:17 PM) —Senator McEwen says that she regrets having to stand in the cham... Read more...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s dogged pursuit of his grand vision for an Asia-Pacific community (APc) is in tatters with revelations yesterday that he ha... Read more...
Posted on June 11, 2010
From: The Courier-Mail THE campaign launch season has begun after the Liberals' Tony Abbott and Labor's Greg Combet jetted into Mackay a... Read more...
Posted on June 10, 2010
Canberra Times A message from the young son of one of the diggers killed in Afghanistan has been read out at his father's memorial service. ... Read more...
Posted on June 09, 2010
ABC PM program 9 June 2010 With the bodies of two Australian soldiers on the way home, debate has turned to Australia's future in Afghanistan. The Gr... Read more...
Posted on June 07, 2010
According to David Marr's Quarterly Essay on Kevin Rudd, during tense negotiations at the Copenhagen climate summit late last year, the Prime Minister... Read more...
DFAT's great hangover by Alex Duchen - 7 June 2010 3:04PM Interesting discussions last week at the Senate Estimates hearings on the Foreign Affair... Read more...
Posted on June 04, 2010
AS easy as it can be to be distracted by the clapped-out vaudeville of question time, one should never forget the fun to be had in Senate estimates, w... Read more...
Posted on June 03, 2010
In response to questions from Queensland Liberal/LNP Senator, Russell Trood, at last night’s Senate Estimates hearings, a legal official from the Depa... Read more...
Yesterday, in Senate Budget Estimates hearings, the Secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Mr Dennis Richardson, acknowledg... Read more...
Posted on June 01, 2010
Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA will dramatically increase its training role in Afghanistan in the coming months but will not take over from the Dutc... Read more...