Will they ever learn?
By Ad astra Will they ever learn? After watching the first Question Time of the most recent sitting of the House of Representatives, the only plausible […]
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You don’t have to be dumb to be a Liberal but…ah stuff it, yes you do
Despite having repeatedly shown appalling judgement in her political career – mistakenly locking up Cornelia Rau and overturning deportation orders to grant Francesco Madafferi a […]
Coalition campaign launch a real shocker.
“Their end game is simply winning at all costs, even at the expense of decency, compassion, and principle”. Former Liberal leader, Dr John Hewson, Professor […]
Change the Rules – Casual and Insecure Work
A War on Words – Casual Employment In Australia, we accept the term ‘casual work’ as synonymous with work that is not full-time permanent or […]
Social security privatisation and income management profiteering
The cashless debit card (CDC), is about more than ‘helping social security recipients that are alcoholics, and, or drug and gambling addicts to get help’, […]
When it comes to taxation, Labor has a purpose – the Coalition has a slogan
As the Coalition do their usual big scary number thing, the real debate about taxation is being obscured. The government’s plan is to cap taxation […]
Shredding Asylum: The Arrest of Julian Assange
The man seemed like a bearded emissary, a holy figure nabbed in his sleep. He looked similarly pale as to how he did in 2013, […]
This Election, Try Telling the Truth
Having a good memory for past federal elections and the tactics employed, going back as far as 1958, I cannot recall a time when dishonesty […]
Absence of Proof: The Approval Process for Adani
Much hot air is coming out from the public relations unit of Adani, and the language used is that of a hostage taker seeking to […]
Why we should elect Labor – brought to you by the Liberal Party
In his 2005 tax policy paper, Malcolm Turnbull described negative gearing and the CGT discount as a “sheltering tax haven” that is “skewing national investment away […]
The Mystery that is the Polls
Because I find it difficult to comprehend how it is possible that a government who has governed so abysmally, stuffed up so many policies, NBN, […]
FauxMo’s “truth campaign”
Scott Morrison told radio host Alan Jones the Coalition would not resort to a “fear campaign” but would run a “truth campaign”. Guffaw. Apparently, joining […]
Beware the Ides of March
By 2353NM While Shakespeare may have ‘popularised’ the term, the ‘ides of March’ goes back to Roman times when March was the beginning of the year […]
The truth as opposed to what Melissa Price says
Today, the misnamed Minister for the Environment, Melissa Price, announced that, on the advice of the CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, she was approving the Adani […]
A headline in Sunday’s Australian read: “PM buys time to sell budget”
Really, I thought to myself, or was it the fact that a Newspoll result was due to be published on Monday and would be sure […]