When your own side does it
Friday 23 March 2018 1 The Labor Party, yes the one you have supported all your life, is caught rorting the system, or the taxpayer, or […]
Articles by John Lord
Can you help me?
Thursday March 22 2018 In 2016 I wrote a series of articles about the state of our democracy, and from them I deduced what I […]
Nationals are dying a slow death
1 The junior partner in the Coalition, the National Party has been silenced and are no longer heard. The were known in my youth as […]
Please don’t call me biased, I’m not.
Tuesday. March 20. 2018 As the analysis of the weekend’s elections continues and the bias of all the contributions expose themselves to further scrutiny, any […]
Does this make him a master political tactician?
Monday 19 March 2018 Yesterday I posed the question; “Why in God’s name did Bill Shorten pick last Tuesday to announce a rather contentious policy? […]
The Polls, Conspiracy theory, Nat’s new leader and of course Barnaby.
Tuesday 27 February 2018 1 And so it came to pass that Barnaby Joyce resigned and was replaced by Michael McCormack as leader of the […]
Joyce and other self indulgences!
Sunday 25 February 2018 And so it came to pass as these things so inevitably do that Barnaby Joyce will tomorrow step down as Deputy […]
Who gives a stuff about what I think. Others have views, too.
Saturday 24 February 2018 Yesterday the keys on my keyboard were craving the familiar attention of my fingers wanting to write of daily happenings in […]
It’s a matter of trust. But would you?
There was a time in Australian politics when ministerial conduct was important. So significant was trust that Ministers could lose their portfolio for the simplest […]
Saving Barnaby
Thursday 22 February 2018 On Wednesday 2 August 2017 I wrote what follows as a result of Barnaby Joyce’s inappropriate drunken outburst in a Shepparton hotel. […]
Turnbull needs to be less taxing
Wednesday 21 February 2018 “The ABC Removed A Story Criticising Government Policy After The PM Wrote A Cranky Letter,” said the headline on Junkee.com. Since […]
Democracy in free fall, thanks to Turnbull.
Monday 19 February 2018 The events last week involving Barnaby Joyce have no doubt left the nation aghast at the ongoing destruction of our democracy. […]
If you throw mud it usually comes back to hit you in the face, Barnaby
During the 2016 election campaign the National Party ran a television advertisement of two women chatting and inferring that Tony Windsor was having, or had […]
One man’s journey into an interest in politics
What influences us more in later life than our upbringing? Certainly events can but nothing stays more with us than those early experiences. Some achieve […]
Another wasted year
The end of the year is almost upon us and before we know it we will be celebrating the coming of 2018. In political terms […]