Hey, it´s not Taxpayers’ Money!
By Ric Testori How often do we hear how taxpayers are funding something or other? In most cases, when it´s put like this, we can […]
Politics
What’s up, GetUp?
By Ric Testori With the Australian Federal Budget coming in a month or so, what can we expect from our government and opposition parties which […]
Vale John Clarke
John Clarke, comedian and satirist, has died suddenly. From Fred Dagg to Farnarkling to his recent Clarke and Dawe interviews, Clarke has always helped us […]
Turnbull blindly follows Trump into Syrian regime change disaster
“What the world saw last night was the United States Commander-in-Chief, and also a father and grandfather,” explains Kellyanne Conway, Counsellor to the President, on […]
The winds of change
By 2353NM Question – what do Mark Latham, YouTube, Nicola Sturgeon, Theresa May and Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act have in common? The […]
Scomo’s con job
Last Thursday, Treasurer Scott Morrison gave an Address to the AFR Banking and Wealth Summit in which he spruiked his “national economic plan” as outlined […]
Cashless society hitting those least able to pay
By Ross Hamilton I first heard about a cashless society back in 1980 when I started work for the Commonwealth Bank. Our manager returned from […]
Rise of the right: The death throes of neo-liberalism or a new age of regression?
By Charlie Stuart The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen major changes in the way politics operates throughout the world. This is […]
The insidious takeover by the IPA
When Leigh Sales asked Malcolm Turnbull why Section 18C was getting more attention than things like “out of pocket medical expenses, the fact that suicide […]
Government sinks in the swamp of stupid
This morning, Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge outdid even himself in the stupidity stakes when he admitted that he had released the private data […]
Fake outrage
By 2353NM You may have noticed some of our more conservative politicians reacting to the recent terrorist attacks in London and Europe by calling for […]
Turnbull government’s tax cut cannot save it from itself.
“We have a plan.” Scott Morrison, has ABC listeners in stitches Monday with yet another of his funny but freaky comedy routines. “… The Government,” […]
Cue the show ponies
Malcolm Turnbull has, it seems, decided that the ‘energy crisis’ is all the fault of the Labor Premiers in South Australia and Victoria. The blackouts […]
Trump isn’t ironic about women, and neither is Turnbull
The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the month of April is national sexual assault awareness and prevention month was greeted with hollow mirth […]
Xenophon: a box of revolting chocolates
Nick Xenophon has capitulated to Turnbull’s big business pressure group by supporting a 5% cut to corporate taxes. That’s right; the man who markets himself […]