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6 days ago · Dishonesty, authenticity, competence. On traditional and social media, including YouTube, body language experts “decode” the body and facial movements of celebrities, whose slightest gestures ...
Aug 22, 2023 · As Conservatives mount political attacks against Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault over his upcoming trip to China, his office is accusing them of attempting to mislead Canadians.
Aug 3, 2022 · With Boris Johnson’s departure, the drama of the Conservative leadership election, and Keir Starmer’s declaration that “integrity matters” in politics, the question of what ethical standards we...
- Joshua Hobbs
Aug 30, 2022 · Chrystia Freeland latest target of public threats, intimidation against women in Canadian politics. It's important for political leaders to recognize when a line has been crossed. But such...
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In the 1960s, the eminent scholar Roger Wettenhall argued ministers were accountable for allthat occurred within their departments. This was a recognition that even if ministerial action was not directly responsible for errors, ministers were nonetheless accountable for them. In the most serious cases, there was an expectation that ministers should...
But fast forward to today, and neither Richard Colbeck nor Stuart Robert have resigned over major blunders within their ministries related to aged care and the “robodebt” scandal, respectively. This begs the question why Prime Minister Scott Morrison did not deem it sufficiently important to exact accountability from his ministers for their major m...
Why, then, are so many current politicians willing to dodge taking accountability for their actions? The easy answer is because they can. After all, the government conventions around accountability have no legal force. They have merely been “honoured” by politicians as part of our democratic culture – as sociologist Edgar Schein suggests, it is “th...
In the broader context, voters have shown they are more willing to elect local independents, such as Helen Haines, Rebekha Sharkie and Zali Steggall at the federal level and Roy Butler, Joe McGirr and Helen Dalton in NSW, who are not seen to be in the mould of other politicians. There is clearly a move towards candidates who place a very high value...
- Chris Aulich
Dec 29, 2021 · The impetus for change in public opinion in Canada or the past two years came not from the pandemic, but from the fallout from acts of racial injustice. The first was the murder in 2020 of George Floyd, an African-American, by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Jul 6, 2024 · Political leaders need to unite now in the mutual interest of making the world safe from evolving pandemic threats. We are closely watching the evolution of the latest outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) in cattle in the USA.
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