Federal Integrity Commission: Yes, no, maybe, too busy
The Prime Minister is never short on confidence, but mostly it borders on arrogance. This was on display in Question Time this week when Scott […]
Articles by John Lord
Another week in a government going from bad to worse
A short time ago I wrote these words: “The worse they govern the more popular they become.” This week’s post budget Newspoll confirms it to […]
Bad form, old chap
Scott Morrison’s arrogance was badly showing while Anthony Albanese was delivering his reply to the budget on Wednesday. Sometimes turning his back or preoccupied with […]
The Budget recognises the people it wants to help, and the rest can go to Hell
Remarkable just how ideologically flexible this government is. For almost three terms their abhorrence of debt could not have been more paramount. Now they have […]
Let Albo be Albo, not another Morrison or an Opposition leader like Abbott
When Bill Shorten was leader of the Opposition he faced constant barrages of criticism from people who thought he wasn’t ‘tuff’ enough. Anthony Albanese, like […]
POTUS and FLOTUS getting it together
So, the man who has spread more misinformation about COVID-19 than any other individual on the planet has caught the coronavirus. The fact that he […]
Murdoch: forever brutal
There is much to read and know about Rupert Murdoch but there is nothing more provocative than the book by current Media Watch host Paul […]
Just because we are governed by clowns it doesn’t mean we have to laugh
1 Yet another scandal surrounding the Liberal Party. A Liberal Party donor purchases a parcel of land near the Western Sydney airport for a fraction […]
“Boys State”: An Australian Perspective
If you have an Apple TV as I do you will no doubt have watched this boisterous flamboyant documentary, Boys State about the youth of […]
They built a disastrous NBN and now they think they can build a power station. Wow.
While the evidence for climate change continues to be reconfirmed by science annually and catastrophic events become the norm, I am reminded of the words […]
Donald Trump: The fool on the hill is full of rage
To say that President Trump is a liar wouldn’t surprise anyone. Nor would I think saying that he is the worst political liar of all […]
Money matters
How could we change economics so that it better reflects the expectations of a modern pluralist society? The world, in the main, and in the […]
A damming report on aged care the government cannot ignore
The COVID-19 deaths in our aged care institutions has revealed the dereliction of duty by the federal government, as it is the federal government who […]
When ‘sorry’ seems to be the hardest word
The Prime Minister’s sorrowful words over the deaths in aged care homes could hardly be described as those of a sincere man. l’m sorry to […]
Wear the bastards down – that’s what we have to do
Only our politicians could think of reasons why they in their personal conduct, their workplace and the political decisions they make, shouldn’t be investigated for […]