Is Barnaby’s career done and dusted?
As we all know, Federal politicians spend nearly half their lives away from home. It can be a lonely life, we know that too. But […]
Politics
Business owners should join unions and vote Labor
It is not just workers who should be backing unions and voting Labor. Small and medium business owners should too. Yes, I’m deadly serious. Let […]
Keeping an Eye on Australia: Admiral Harry Harris Goes to Canberra
Imperial arrangements require decent overseer of subjects. In the Pax Americana, which is, in fact, rather violent, Australia is indispensable in the Pacific theatre. It […]
Bonking, nepotism and the trials of being a politician away from home
Whilst Barnaby Joyce may consider his workplace sexual affairs a private matter, they give rise to many questions. Cathy McGowan is considering introducing a motion […]
The Joyce affair: how the media didn’t know about it for sure until yesterday. No, really.
Over the last twenty-four hours, since the Daily Telegraph revealed the worst-kept secret of 2017, there’s been a deluge of rather plaintive articles from journalists […]
Outing the US Empire: Trump’s Military Parade
You only had to see him goggle-eyed and enthusiastic beside France’s President Emmanuel Macron last Bastille Day. The tricolours were fluttering, the jets booming above […]
Turnbull will do anything to keep his job including sacrificing our democracy
Yesterday, George Brandis, in his farewell speech, fired a warning shot at the Liberal Party and, in particular, at Peter Dutton. Brandis said “powerful elements […]
The Stock Market … better it never existed
Are we witnessing the end of the surge on Wall St? Or is, what we witnessed this week, no more than a minor correction? The […]
Australia’s social harmony comes from its diversity
Sensible discussion about immigration levels is hard to have without it degenerating into xenophobic rants from people looking for someone to blame for their own […]
A religious right to hire and fire?
Collectively, religion is one of the largest private employers in the nation, with unique exemptions from anti-discrimination laws. Will Ruddock’s Review recommend more? By Brian […]
Can political honesty be resurrected?
By Ad astra To the seasoned political observer, placing the words ‘political’ and ‘honesty’ together is an oxymoron. Everywhere we look, we see the opposite […]
Arms deals, cabinet leaks and fake jobs figures reveal a desperate Turnbull government.
Return of The Fixer opens to a stacked house this week in Canberra’s political theatre. The show has everything, arms-dealers, a PMC mystery Cabinet of Dr Caligari homage […]
Like bees to a honey pot, foreign defence manufacturers flock to Australia
When the government announced that it would spend $400 billion over the next twenty years on defence materiel and that it would, in opposition to […]
Bungling Crown Privilege: Australia’s Cabinet Security Breach
Journalists would have seen it as a scoop, and insisted that no laws had been broken. Politicians might have considered it a calamity. Whatever one […]
How to ‘un-smash’ unions
Labor’s Mark Butler says unions are in ‘deep crisis’ thanks to Howard ‘smashing the power of organised labour’. Although the history books say that Howard’s […]