The Ease of Accusation: The Skripal Affair
The policy of responding to assassinations on British soil is a near non-existent one. Her Majesty’s Government is certainly in the habit of huffing, and […]
Politics
Nationals are dying a slow death
1 The junior partner in the Coalition, the National Party has been silenced and are no longer heard. The were known in my youth as […]
The triple-pincers: showing their true colours
There is a line in the brilliant Anat Shenker-Osorio’s book Don’t Buy It which Labor should use as their mantra when developing policies and communicating […]
CLIVE HAMILTON’S Book “SILENT INVASION” Is “Yellow Peril” And Sinophobia To The Extreme
I must admit, Australia is entering a very volatile time in terms of how it perceives Mainland China and subsequently how they treat Chinese Australians […]
Will Pauline be bullied into changing her mind?
The government is going to try to push through its company tax cuts in the next two weeks and requires the support of One Nation […]
Please don’t call me biased, I’m not.
Tuesday. March 20. 2018 As the analysis of the weekend’s elections continues and the bias of all the contributions expose themselves to further scrutiny, any […]
What can be done about President Trump?
By Ad astra As you ponder the machinations of the White House administration, do you sometimes imagine that you must be in some creaky old […]
Does this make him a master political tactician?
Monday 19 March 2018 Yesterday I posed the question; “Why in God’s name did Bill Shorten pick last Tuesday to announce a rather contentious policy? […]
From SA election conundrum to the riddle of the ASEAN Way
Could Adelaide, or “Adders”, as Jeffrey Smart loved to call the Athens of the South, the staid city of churches and canon law, now be […]
Is Barnaby auditioning for a new band?
On Friday, Barnaby Joyce posted the following on his Facebook page: The fastest growing sector of our economy is agriculture where farmers are doing the […]
Racial Preferences: Peter Dutton and White South African Farmers
It has been the great misfit Australian policy since the 1990s: a refugee and immigration policy that shows itself to be scrupulously fair, calculable and […]
Near Neighbours – PNG: New Fault-lines in the Tropics
By Denis Bright With its surging population growth, economic volatility and internal income divide, many of our neighbours in Papua-New Guinea (PNG) are having difficulty […]
We need to talk about Jean
This week, in response to Labor’s announcement that shareholders who pay no tax will no longer be getting cash back from the government, the Herald […]
A big day for a little man
It was a big day yesterday for our newly minted Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton. Firstly, Dutton’s hand-picked choice to head his paramilitary Border Force, […]
If the government really cared about our kids, they would listen to them
The government talks a lot about our children when they don’t want to pay for something, but do they really actually give a toss about […]