The pompous triviality of George Christensen
Over my working lifetime I have seen enormous changes in requirements regarding behaviour, record-keeping, governance and oversight at every organisation with which I have been […]
Politics
Just because a govt agency says it wrote you a letter, doesn’t mean it did
One of Human Services Minister Alan Tudge‘s justifications for his aggressive media pursuit of writer, blogger and single mother Andie Fox, is that Centrelink made numerous […]
Pretending we give a shit
Nine years ago, Scott Morrison gave his maiden speech to Parliament expressing many noble ideals, none of which have been displayed by Mr Morrison in […]
Power and the people
It is universally accepted that workers are much less powerful than employers. The struggle for power between capitalists and workers is the basis of the […]
Tudge releases unauthorised documents, and where are the “leading” feminists?
Please feel free to email, phone or visit this man with your opinions. The Guardian has this afternoon reported that Human Services Minister Alan Tudge “accidentally” […]
Scott’s trickle-down fairy dust blown away
The recently released GDP figures for the December quarter put another nail in the coffin of Scott Morrison’s economic plan. Despite a 16.5% rise in […]
Is Christensen being fair dinkum?
By Ross Hamilton There can be no question about it – George Christensen is a renegade. Ever since he first entered parliament in 2010, he […]
No need for Centrelink to prove your comments are adverse: they only need to think so before exposing you to the media
Further to yesterday’s post on the release to Fairfax media of private information by Human Services Minister Alan Tudge, the minister has justified his decision […]
We already live in Trump’s vision
Donald Trump is so behind the times I am surprised that Pauline Hanson hasn’t called him a piss-poor copycat. The Donald pretends his immigration laws […]
Fairfax and Centrelink unite in an unprecedented move to publicly persecute one woman
Early in February, writer and blogger Andie Fox published an account of her interactions with Centrelink over a failure by her ex partner to submit […]
The “maggot” worming his way into the core of One Nation
James Ashby’s takeover of One Nation has been swift and complete. One can only speculate on who first contacted whom but, all of a sudden […]
Turnbull embraces Netanyahu; lets everything else go to hell.
Sydney Harbour sparkles in the morning sun, a wash of blue and the perfect backdrop for the azure ties and matching navy Zegna suits of […]
Will we hate ourselves into oblivion?
Look around you, my friends. Hate. Everywhere. At first I thought to myself “this is worse than it has ever been”. Then I remembered the […]
Abbott’s legacy of destruction
By Ad astra Do you sometimes wonder how the Turnbull government has managed to get itself into such a mess? Of course Malcolm Turnbull must […]
Hanson says Royal Commission into Banks not necessary after visiting South Bank in Queensland
Following her election to the Australian Senate in July 2016, Pauline Hanson said that her very first priority was to call for a Royal Commission […]