THE awarding of Australia’s highest honour to tennis legend Margaret Court has been mired in controversy after other recipients protested her inclusion over her stance towards same-sex marriage. Court, one of the world’s most accomplished tennis players, was yesterday elevated from her previous appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) to a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
HARVARD Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said that a post-presidential impeachment wouldn’t work and goes against the Constitution, after House Democrats voted to impeach the president last week. “It will be unconstitutional, but that probably won’t bother the senators,” Prof Dershowitz told the US’s Fox News on the weekend.
THE five eyes countries of Australia, Canada, UK and the US have voiced criticism of Hong Kong’s National Security Law after the arrest of more pro-democracy figures. Foreign Ministers from four of the Five Eyes countries have urged Hong Kong authorities to respect “legally guaranteed rights” after 55 politicians and activists were arrested on charges of “subversion” under the new pro-Beijing bill.
US SENATOR Ted Cruz and 11 other Republican senators announced they would challenge the electoral results, joining dozens of House lawmakers in their bid.
IN THE fallout from the November 3 US Presidential Election, numerous credible allegations of voting irregularities have arisen in the form of sworn affidavits and other evidence. The current allegations of voter fraud come after four years of efforts to oust President Donald Trump from office, first through the false Russia collusion narrative, then though impeachment.
AMID ongoing trade disputes Beijing has instigated against Australia, the Republic of Congo —which is heavily indebted to China—has stripped three Australian mining firms of major iron ore projects under alleged “unlawful and arbitrary” circumstances.
REPUBLICAN electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico cast alternative slates of votes for President Donald Trump on December 14, as the certified Democrat electors in the same States cast votes for former Vice President Joe Biden.
