Backbench Revolt Looming
The Prime Minister has lost the respect of some of his colleagues and has only a few months to turn things around or his position […]
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Where are the Visionaries?
If ever Tony Abbott had an opportunity to become the infrastructure Prime Minister he boasted he wanted to be, right now it is staring him […]
It’s 2015 Joe, not 2165
Really! Treasurer Joe Hockey is becoming as adept as Tony Abbot at putting the proverbial foot in his mouth. That Joe should be looking so […]
How to sell the Economy
Beyond all the programs and policies it takes to the next election, Labor’s biggest challenge will be selling its economic credentials. While their record in […]
More Pythonesque than John Cleese
What a bunch of cowards. To avoid yet another embarrassing defeat in the senate, the PM capitulates on the proposed reduction of the Medicare rebate […]
Plutocrats and Pitchforks
The word ‘revolution’ has throughout history been synonymous with the cry for equality and social change. The French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of […]
The Cost of Unemployment
If you believe the present government regards unemployment and its younger brother, underemployment, as less important than a balanced budget, you are probably right. Certainly […]
Shock Jock Blitz
Will the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott produce his RN (Renunciation Form) to confirm that he has renounced his British citizenship? The question still has not […]
Cormann was once a little Focker
There was an article in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age today with the heading, “Govt to tackle head on claims it is unfair […]
What will Labor Inherit in 2016?
$1 billion dollars a week. That is what the LNP have been “borrowing” every week since they were elected in September 2013. At this rate, […]
The Failure of Mainstream Media
The way in which the mainstream media (MSM) chooses to report and discuss the economy, i.e. in conventional neo-liberal terms, reinforces the notion that the economy is some […]
The Government’s Economic Credentials in Freefall
If you want more evidence that the present government is doing its best to wreck our economy, a stark example was revealed just before Christmas, […]
Three not so wise men
Firstly, Tony Abbott. As if he had not embarrassed himself enough during this year, the latest but not necessarily the last effort was his astonishing […]
THE DOOMSDAY CRASH; It’s coming
It is just a few days before Christmas and probably not the best time to be warning people of impending doom, but then, when is […]
2015, Abbott’s ‘Annus Horribilus’
If Labor had ‘lost its way’ under Kevin Rudd, as Julia Gillard stated in parliament the day she became prime minister, then what can we […]