Through the looking glass with Trump and Barnaby
Now that Donald Trump, Leader of the Free-with-the-truth World, has got a dodgy clean bill of health and a thumbs-up from The Drum for keeping […]
Politics
Greg Hunt’s Pea & Thimble Trick
By Terence Mills If you buy private health insurance cover, you are about to be scammed, watch out! Greg Hunt, the responsible minister – let […]
Australia’s taxpayers question more “religious freedom”
By Brian Morris Philip Ruddock’s “Religious Freedom Review” is of concern to same-sex couples but how will tax-payers respond to more religious privilege for the […]
Let’s keep Australia working
By John Haly The Liberals who cut penalty rates, public services, and taxes for the corporates, have come up with a slogan to replace “Jobs […]
Fiddling the figures while the planet burns – Fact-checking Frydenberg
In an interview on ABC radio last Thursday, Josh Frydenberg was eventually forced to admit that emissions rose again last year as they have every […]
Hunger strike starts over immigration detention visits restrictions
Media Release: Refugee Action Coalition Over two hundred detainees at two detention centres, Villawood in Sydney and Maribynong in Melbourne, have declared a hunger strike […]
A Politician’s Guide to telling the truth about taxation
Following an interview with an unusually frank and forthright politician, a journalist was struggling to absorb the reality that taxes don’t fund government spending. He […]
Call off your dogs, Turnbull and scrap your attack on open government.
“We are very concerned at the growing gang violence and lawlessness in Victoria, in particular in Melbourne …This is a failure of the Andrews Labor […]
A Politician’s guide to the question, “How are you going to pay for it?”
If there’s one question a politician fears being asked, it is this one. After announcing a decision to undertake a bold new and expensive development […]
Sixteen years later and the contemptuous Peter Dutton is still making the same speech
It was only seven months ago that Greg Hunt, Michael Sukkar and Alan Tudge, under threat of contempt of court charges, made an unconditional apology […]
“Co-existence” – NBN’s latest excuse
Regular readers will know the saga I have been dealing with as a result of living in a marginal seat which had FttN thrust upon […]
Preparing for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and Cooling a Century of Korean Tensions
By Denis Bright Cheers to the voters of South Korea who elected Democratic Party President Moon Jae-in to office in May 2017 with a convincing […]
Hunt offers less for youth mental health programs than we spent on the postal survey
Amidst much fanfare, Greg Hunt announced yesterday that there would be an injection of more than $100 million into school mental health programs and a […]
House of Cards
A quite lengthy article published back in November last year by Matt Barrie and Craig Tindale on Medium.com entitled, “Australia’s economy is a House of […]
Roman’s holiday – what else could go wrong?
“May God bless you, may God bless your work, may God bless the country you are helping to protect and prosper.” So said Tony Abbott in July […]