Effing get over it: Hunt gives Turnbull government a new motto.
“Fucking get over it”, is Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt’s uplifting advice to 71 year old Fay Miller, Mayor of Katherine, who dared front Hunt […]
Politics
Vicki Campion’s judgement
If you are a politician who has, for your whole career, deliberately courted the cameras for your own purposes, you cannot expect them to just […]
Turnbull’s ‘Fake’ Jobs
By Michael Griffin © Despite the 403,000 ‘new jobs’ that Turnbull and his employment minister, Michaelia Cash, claim to have created over 2017, over that […]
Hastie goes over the top while Hanson spills the beans.
Petty, vindictive, political bastardry, the signature theme of our bastardised, post-modern, dog-eat-dog politics, erupts far and wide this week, from magical fabulist, US pseudo-President, mob […]
Why do governments find it so hard to say we were wrrrr……….
Government is, in some ways, like running a business. They must decide what they are trying to achieve, examine different approaches, choose which one to […]
I Have No Qualifications But What the Heck !
I have just been reading about the bizarre goings on in the WA parliament and the barefaced lies told by former Labor MP Barry Urban […]
Increasing the Superannuation Guarantee would be a smart move
Nothing exemplifies better how totally lacking in judgement the Coalition is than the superannuation saga. (Ok, maybe their determination to exacerbate climate change, but that’s […]
Dodgy dealings
Tony Abbott promised a government that would be transparent and accountable. Malcolm Turnbull promised to respect the intelligence of the electorate. But increasingly, we are […]
Does the Coalition have a woman problem or just a problem being human?
Does the Coalition have a woman problem? Or a “female” problem as Education Minister and Gonski-con-artist, simple Simon Birmingham puts it? Or just your everyday, […]
Man the life rafts
By 2353NM It is probably an urban myth that the dance band on the Titanic were playing Nearer my God to Thee as they went to a […]
Unsettling the Summits: John Bolton’s Libya Solution
The inevitable stop, start and stuttering of the Korean peace process was bound to manifest itself soon after the hugs, expansive smiles and sympathetic back […]
Show Me Your Papers!
Do you carry ‘papers’? You know the sort of thing we saw in the movie Casablanca where Nazi SS officers would demand to see your […]
How do you achieve tax reform when the government are more interested in name-calling than honesty?
Rather than prosecuting the case for their policies, such as they are, the Coalition have decided their best chance of re-election lies with their “Kill […]
Oh Ye of Little Faith!
Well, you thought he couldn’t do it; you thought that Tony Abbott was indulging in intemperate exuberance [or telling fibs] when he said in 2013 […]
And still they ignore the existential threat posed by climate change
The most recent quarterly update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory states that emissions per capita, and the emissions intensity of the economy (emissions/$ of […]