Can the Labor Party stay focused this time?
The 2013 election showed that policies and results are immaterial in being successful in politics if you don’t deliver the message. The Labor Party had […]
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Turnbull’s Kill Bill show can’t hide his failure to sell his NEG to his back bench.
Is it back to the future? Or is it déjà vu? The Coalition fails to win over its coal lobby to its Clayton’s National Energy […]
Lesson one – don’t dob on the government
For years now, the OECD corruption watchdogs have been recommending that Australia improve its protection for whistleblowers. In their latest report last December, they pointed […]
The drips win the week
Saturday 30 June 2018 Introduction I should have posted this piece last Saturday but because of some issues with my password and my lack of […]
Gravy train charlatans
When Chris Sarra announced his resignation as co-chair of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous advisory council to concentrate on a new position as the head of Queensland’s […]
Democrats Against Assange: Influencing US-Ecuador Relations
Such a historical twist, but one that deserves its iniquitous slot in the history books. No secret has been made about US policy towards Julian […]
Tax Cuts and Other Wedges
There has been a disturbing urgency on the part of the Turnbull government to slash personal and corporate taxes prior to the next election, due […]
Viktor Orbán’s Soros Problem
Where there are refugees and asylum seekers, there will be the assistants, the exploiters and the opportunists. The global anti-refugee sentiment has become an industrial […]
Turnbull, the self-made man. Seriously?
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them … I […]
WEALTH AND POWER KEEP ON WINNING
As a committed advocate of Modern Monetary Theory and one who thinks it should be renamed, Modern Monetary System, for reasons I will explain, there […]
The admirable politician
By Ad astra Look back over items published on The Political Sword over the years and you will see countless pieces that describe the appalling state of […]
Trinkets for the masses and jewels for the rich
Mathias Cormann has always reminded me of a toy I had as a child – a doll with a painted face who had a string […]
Aspirational? Don’t try to take us for ride, Mr Turnbull.
Aging chestnut mare, Aspirational, returns to the Canberra track, next week, in the lead-up to The Super Saturday By-election Stakes, to be run 28 July. […]
ANU v The Muppets
I don’t know if you’ve been following the very odd goings on between the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (aka The Muppets) and the Australian […]
Evading Medical Care: Australia’s Refugee Arrangements with Taiwan
It is a credit to the venality of Australia’s refugee policy that much time is spent on letting others do what that particular country ought […]