Farmers know the climate is changing
The consistent refrain coming through from many of our farmers is the climate is changing, they don’t know or care what is causing it, but […]
Politics
The Death of the Investigative Journalist: Channel Nine’s Takeover of Fairfax
The Yes Minister series portraying the skulduggery of Whitehall during the Thatcher years throws up a salient reminder how certain things do not mix. Should […]
Good luck with that, Josh
You wouldn’t be Josh Frydenberg for quids. He has Victoria, Queensland and the ACT all dubious about the NEG being not ambitious enough on emissions […]
My Health Records Act 2012
I had started to put together an article showing how Greg Hunt, in his insistence that the My Health legislation would not allow the police […]
30 plus reasons why you shouldn’t vote for an incumbent government who couldn’t govern a kindergarten
1 August 2018 Newspapers and media outlets in a rush to make themselves relevant within a life or death struggle for survival, push all sorts […]
Sacred Cows
It’s time to kill some political and social sacred cows. Politicians cannot change their mind Of course they can and they shouldn’t be pilloried for […]
The biggest business in the country is run by amateurs whose self-interest comes before that of its shareholders
Annual government expenditure is over $450 billion per year making it, by far, the biggest business in the country. They decide what percentage of our […]
Plans for Attack: US Plans for Striking Iran
The world of the terrifying hypothetical is programmatically standard in the Trump White House. Periods of tense calm are followed by careless flights of fury, […]
Not so super Saturday for Turnbull but silencing of dissent a winner.
Love is in the air is on endless loop at PM’s eleven-week, five by-election, 500,000 voter dance marathon. It’s a bizarre, grotesque, contest as bone-weary […]
The dearth of Australian journalism
ABCTV’s the Insiders broadcast 29/7/2018 the morning after Super Saturday demonstrated the parlous state of quality Australian journalism. After interrogating Liberal Minister for Defence Industry […]
Like Spoilt Little Brats
It was not paranoia, it was real. The past three weeks saw our supposed free press, our once proud doyens of truth and justice forsake […]
Quō vādis, Malcolm ?
Malcolm Turnbull declared that the by-election in Longman was a test of leadership between himself and Bill Shorten … He went on to tell ABC […]
Embellishing Crime: Melbourne’s “African Gang” Problem
Always trust the handy anecdote to overwhelm reality with force and false persuasiveness. The taxi driver irate at the latest opportunistic scribble in a Rupert […]
We’re all done with Dual citizenship : especially when it’s the Liberal party
Super Saturday is largely about dual-citizenship and the Labor party. Why do you think that is, why are no Liberal politicians being challenged over their […]
Electing the Cornered Tiger: Imran Khan in Pakistani Politics
Tariq Ali, whilst having a lunch in Knightsbridge with the Pakistani cricket colossus, Imran Khan, suggested that retirement should not be too problematic for him. […]