Turnbull government fails Australia on jobs and energy
Super Mal, our super-antihero PM, the down-under “wonder-gunner” blitzes Canberra’s political firmament this week, lighting up the sky with yet another dazzling flash of super-power […]
Politics
The Trans-Tasman Spat Show: New Zealand-Australian Tensions
It was an awkward moment for Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop. News had arrived that a New Zealand government had been formed after a lengthy […]
The Opium of the People and the Addiction of Government
By Terence Mills Several years ago a friend who gambles regularly mentioned to me that pokies were manipulated by the larger clubs and casinos to […]
Australia’s Citizenship Bill Fails
This is a government that takes pride in its hard headedness and faux populism. Knowing it would have to brave a sceptical, even baffled Senate, […]
What’s wrong with PM Turnbull?
By Ad astra As a weary electorate approaches yet another holiday season, looks back over the year and asks: ‘How has our federal government improved […]
Cognitive dissonance, collective dishonesty, corrupt dealings or complete dumbness
I am firmly convinced that the entire Coalition suffers from cognitive dissonance. Barnaby Joyce, in an opinion piece for a Tamworth newspaper bemoaning the “malicious […]
Drug Law Reform
By John Haly The War on Drugs, like the ones on terror, waste, poverty, and crime, are metaphors for institutional failures to address fundamental problems […]
Welcome to the new economy: Brought to you by the Coalition Government
By Terence Mills Punitive legislation to hobble and ultimately cripple the union movement has been a key strategy of both government and employer groups in […]
A government not remotely interested in health. Nor human rights.
“It is hardly necessary to say that the court is aware of the need to give its answers to these references with or without reasons […]
What is a worker?
Amongst credible economists and political leaders (so, not including Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison), it is universally accepted that Australia, like most other developed economies, […]
Climate Change Insurgent: Tony Abbott’s Crusade
He is the inimitable, true political ugliness, the bad boy with a mistimed punch. While not quite professorial in his lunacy (that honour will have […]
Letting Craig Kelly dictate energy policy is as stupid as letting Tony Abbott destroy the NBN
The head of the misnamed Coalition backbench environment committee, Craig Kelly, has been all over the media with ever more strident calls to stop all […]
Big Batteries: Elon Musk and Powering South Australia
At the end of last month, Tesla boss Elon Musk held a party in South Australia’s mid-north. It seemed premature, but Musk was typically confident. […]
Let’s face it, Abbott is one seriously screwed-up little dude
It has been said that one of Tony Abbott’s strengths is his conviction. In 2005, one of his Liberal colleagues summed him up this way. […]
What works best for the next election: an energy policy or a series of blackouts?
By Terence Mills The messages coming from this government in so many areas are confusing and contradictory, and whilst they talk about energy stability and […]