2024 And Not A Royal Wedding In Sight, So People Have To Think About Politics
As one gets older, one is immediately confronted by the shock of dates… No, I don’t mean going on them… Although that would be quite […]
Politics
Press propaganda ramps up
I used to think Mark Kenny was a reasonably well-informed political commentator but I have felt recently that he was trying overly hard to give […]
The Decency of Violence: Massacre in Gaza
It has the makings of another Intifada: appalling timing in terms of commemoration (the founding of the state of Israel; the opening of the US […]
A government who truly cared about jobs would have kept the car industry going rather than spending hundreds of billions on defence materiel
When the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) delivered a scathing report into the government’s $89 billion Naval Shipbuilding Plan, warning of high levels of risk, […]
The Commercial Heavens: The New Australian Space Agency
Politicians have been clambering to the top extolling something that has yet to exist. Scientists are claiming a job boom that has yet to transpire. […]
Bully Boys
By Ad astra Did you notice the behaviour of Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull during Budget week? Were you comfortable with the words and actions […]
Bill’s a liar? ScoMo, your own pants are on fire
“Liar”, screeches Scott Morrison, the pot calling the kettle black, opting fittingly for a personal insult rather than a reply to Bill Shorten’s Budget reply, […]
Are You Feeling Lucky, Malcolm?
My question is directed to the Prime Minister. Your treasurer has just brought down your 2018/19 budget laced with tax cuts to woo the low […]
The Spectre of Torture: The Gina Haspel Hearings
“I’m not going to sit here with the benefit of hindsight and judge the very good people who made hard decisions who were running the […]
Bill Shorten’s Address in Reply: Hope versus Opportunism and Elitism
By Denis Bright In his Address in Reply Speech, Bill Shorten challenged the inherent opportunism in the LNP’s Budget Statement. Labor still faces an enormous […]
The ABC has no Friends left
After Tony Abbott, in his first budget, broke his promise to not cut funding to the ABC, a new cross-party lobby group called Parliamentary Friends […]
Budget Tax-Breaks Snakes and Ladders
By Barddylbach Budget 2018 tax breaks smoke and mirrors – the higher incomes get the tax-breaks and the lower incomes are paying for it … […]
NAB’s opinion of the budget
The National Australia Bank, in their assessment of the 2018-19 budget, described the government’s commitment to a tax to GDP ratio of 23.9% as “largely […]
Budget mania almost derails Macron mania but no diversion from Coalition’s war on the poor.
Australia is seized by budget mania. Abuzz. Agog. But after weeks of frenzied expectation, leaks and speculation, relief is in sight. The Coalition’s much-vaunted “economic […]
Coalition religious values are increasingly unrepresentative of most Australians
The growing percentage of Australia’s population reporting no religion has been a trend for decades, and is accelerating with almost 7 million people (30%) describing […]