From Vietnam to Iran: Australian Cannon Fodder?
This morning, in Ohio USA, our Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended the opening of the Australian funded Pratt Paper Factory. He gave a scripted little […]
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Phew!! That was close but Craig Kelly has confirmed that climate change doesn’t exist!
On Thursday, the Member for Hughes, after a long lunch, struggled to his feet, adjusted his belt over his ample belly, wiped some egg from […]
Extinction Rebellion: Leaving it to the Students
The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison: “Scomo was liking it hot.” A glorious […]
August 2019 Unemployment Data: Looking Beyond the 5.3% Official Unemployment Rate
By Denis Bright The latest August 2019 employment data shows the Australian labor market in a transitional stage. The federal treasury is awash with funds […]
Frydenberg and Steel-Plated Boots
The final results are in for the fiscal year 2018/19. The government’s May Budget prediction of a $4 billion deficit has come in officially at […]
Prospects of Israel’s Return to the Political Centre
By Denis Bright Prospects of Israel’s Return to the Political Centre Under a Blue White Coalition Government Headed by Benny Gantz Despite the strong showing […]
The Yoke of Inequality Burdens Us All
By Ad Astra It was in 2012 that The Price of Inequality by Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz was published in America and the United […]
Petroleum Crumbs
By Michael Brazel Let’s talk about the attack on the oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia. This has the potential to be the critical flash-point […]
Only the dumb get dumber
In June of 2007 at the height of one of the Victoria’s most crippling droughts, when Melbourne’s water storage levels had dropped to 28.4% – […]
Woe To You, ScoMo: The Bible, The Poor and The Prime Pharisee
I have done this before: meeting Scott Morrison on his own biblical turf and ripping him a new one on how his pseudo-christianity is about […]
Oiling for War: The Houthi Attack on Abqaiq
The attack on the world’s largest oil processing facility at Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia southwest of Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran had a few predictable responses. […]
An Open Letter to “The Left”
I am writing this letter to anyone who considers themselves as part of the left movement. Excuse my lack of salutation. I was going to […]
Glad all over?
Is “One Million Dollar Woman” Liberal Party “gun” fund-raiser, Gladys Liu, a catspaw of the Chinese Communist Party’s 2005 huaren canzheng, a policy of “ethnic […]
Conservative Distortions: Images of Corner Stores from the Thatcher Era to Brexit
By Denis Bright For neoconservatives, the quasi-religious devotion to corner stores might invite nostalgia for Margaret Thatcher’s modest family home above the corner store and […]
Holy shite!
It’s the smirk; that perpetual, condescending, self-satisfied smirk. It’s a creepy display of the arrogance of a smug holy-roller who literally believes he has a […]