As Australian prices rise, Exxon slashes price for Australian gas exported to India
As Malcolm Turnbull tells us that he is talking tough to gas companies in Australia, India just renegotiated a deal to take more of our […]
Politics
When Bullshit Baffles Brains
Those of us who regard truth as a fundamental democratic value and who have now realised that truth no longer plays a part in our […]
Perpetual outrage about nothing
There are some in the media who use perpetual outrage as their stock-in-trade but they rarely present a balanced, or even truthful, view. Last month, […]
The Jobless Did Not Ask For This!
Who is responsible for jobs? Should we punish the jobless? Is welfare a right or a privilege? These are the questions the Government is too […]
Shooting at Hurricane Irma: The Seriousness of Humour
It has all the ingredients of screwball standup comedy, the necessary corrective to end-of-the-world scenarios. “And there she was, Irma, blowing herself through the room […]
You call that an energy plan?
When Scott Morrison was challenged on Insiders about not having an energy plan, he indignantly launched into what was obviously a prepared comeback. PROBYN: You […]
Turnbull no Pacific leader nor, alas, at home.
His Pacific Leaders’ blue shirt a size too tight Malcolm Bligh Turnbull winces at the camera like Gulliver awakening to find himself tied to the […]
When you’re in a hole, stop digging
In the next week or so, we’re all supposedly getting a letter from the Australian Bureau of Statistics so we can (if we choose) ‘advise’ […]
The total capitulation of Mealy-Mouthed Malcolm
When Malcolm Turnbull rolled a sitting Prime Minister, he promised a different style of leadership. “The big economic changes that we’re living through here and […]
Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prizes and the Rohingyas
Scratch the skin of a saint, claimed George Orwell, and you are bound to find a sinner with an extensive resume. Such resumes are evaluated […]
To those who think the YES campaign is too “in your face”
I know we are supposed to show respect to the NO side in the marriage equality debate but for how long? When Robert Menzies introduced […]
Workers Pawns in a Game of Thrones
In my study of the stories told by the media about industrial disputes, I’ve discovered workers are surprisingly absent from the plot. The reason this […]
Taking Aim: WikiLeaks, Congress and Hostile Agencies
Various scribbles have started to pepper the conversation started by the adventurous Mike Pompeo after he branded WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence agency before the Center […]
Beggars for War: The US, North Korea and Bankruptcy
The statement before members of the United Nations Security Council was both brash and high strung. The US ambassador had clearly decided that firm words […]
Ideology and idiocy
Yesterday in Question Time, Malcolm Turnbull stood up and lambasted the “sorry tale of Labor mismanagement” of energy policy. He particularly criticised South Australia and […]