Joseph Poprzeczny

The Rudd government hasn’t exactly gotten off to flash start in the foreign relations area.Strangely, Australians have been helped to realise this by a Japanese reporter who attended a press confer-en

The wife of Kevin Rudd’s chief of staff, David Epstein, is to run the Canberra office of major lobbying concern, Government Relations Australia (GRA), which also operates in Western Australia.

With most in-the-know political pundits confident the next state election will be held this December, it’s time to begin considering some possible outcomes.

It’s surprising that the ongoing revelations of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s close contacts with former Premier Brian Burke have sparked so little media attention

Many readers of State Scene will remember Pete Seeger’s popular and catchy song of the 1960s, ‘Where have all the Flowers Gone’. It’s perhaps because the word, flowers, seems to rhyme with ‘farmers’ that I’ve found myself humming it lately.

Many readers will know that, when reference is made to the world’s second oldest profession, it’s spying that’s being discussed.What’s not always immediately realised is the range of clandestine activ

Former state Liberal leader Matt Birney’s recent announcement that he won’t be seeking re-election for the seat of Kalgoorlie means the Liberals, in less than three months, have lost two former leaders from their parliamentary ranks

Future generations of Western Australians are likely to recall 2007 because of several significant, indeed unique, political events.

November 13 2007 was certainly a very unlucky day for former state upper house MPs, Shelley Archer and Anthony Fels.