The Elephant in the Room
Every now and then, I remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes, where it takes a child to point out what everyone should be […]
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The Cassandra Effect, Abbott and Boiling a Frog. Dr Who?
I step out of the phone box. I look around. Picking up a paper, I see the date September 16th, 2009. Either the time travel […]
An Abbott and two Bishops walk into a Party
“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply […]
Why I don’t write Satire
Ok, the other day someone asked me why I don’t seem to write as much satire anymore. There’s too much competition, I explained. But I […]
Australia is Nobody’s Business
From today, I declare that Australia is under new management and that Australia is once again open for new business,” Tony Abbott “All models are wrong; […]
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we […]
Whose fault is it?
I once observed that it’d benefit a lot of organizations if someone was paid to take the blame when things go wrong. “We’ve overestimated/underestimated/overspent/missed the […]
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
1993 – Hewson has lost the unlosable election. He had released the most detailed policy, outlining his plans for a GST, welfare reform, cutbacks to […]
Usually, they wait till you’ve signed the contract before revealing the fine print!
Who else received a Contract from Tony Abbott? Just wondering, because I misplaced mine and I’ve been searching for it on the internet, and I […]
Let’s All Buy Fairfax Shares and Stop publishing Amanda Vanstone
I always try to consider the possibility that I may be wrong. In 1975, I was one of the few students to say that Malcolm […]
Sick of hearing about those bloody boat people – Scott Morrison has the answer!
“Australians may never know how many asylum-seeker boats arrive under a Coalition government, with opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison refusing to release details about boat […]
Literally doesn’t mean literally anymore, and the Conservatives have been Radicals since the 80s
The word ‘literally’ has been redefined in the Oxford English Dictionary – to include what is widely accepted as the ‘wrong’ definition.The dictionary has altered their […]
People told me to read between the lines, but I didn’t see anything written there!
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition policy to pay long-term unemployed young people who find a job up to $15,500 is “a sensible investment”. […]
Bias – Are we talking lawn bowls or loaded dice?
Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a “jack” or […]
Abbott v Rudd in the Education Debate
TONY ABBOTT: Leigh, I think the education debate, the school education debate shouldn’t be about funding, it should be about quality, and that’s what we’re […]