A simplified guide to work entitlements and cutting costs
In order to avoid “errors of judgement” and “flights inadvertently booked for official travel rather than private”, and to help with budget repair and reducing […]
Politics
Climate Change and China: an example of media disunity
By Mel Mac I surfed the ABC news website this afternoon and clicked onto this headline: “China fights pollution: New environmental police squad to battle heavy smog”. […]
It is time for us all to start caring about something more than money
As we watch the debacle that calls itself government around the world scratching its collective head at why the people are angry, it would be […]
Keeping up appearances
Tony Abbott is certainly keeping up appearances. Aside from being a not-so-humble backbencher with an itchy twitter finger, he has been extremely busy for the […]
The Economy an Impending Train Wreck
If you were on a fast moving train and someone came through the carriage and told you that the train had no brakes and only […]
How Turnbull plans to raise $4.6 billion from the unemployed
The Turnbull government plans to raise a windfall of $4.6 billion over the next four years, and this is how they intend to do it. […]
The false economy of decimating the public service
I sometimes wonder if the real Malcolm Turnbull was kidnapped and replaced by a doppelganger, so different are his actions as Prime Minister to his […]
The LNP war on welfare recipients
Yesterday I watched, incredulous (I know, only a fool with no sense of the immediate past could continue to be startled by any action performed by […]
Stop the waste and we can stop attacking the poor
As the government scrambles to claw back money from the old, the sick, the pregnant, and the unemployed, they put no such austerity on their […]
Talking About Wealth Inequality
One of the few positive outcomes from the car-crash of Brexit and Trump is that political leaders are finally realising that wealth inequality is not […]
Porkies and porkbarrelling – the Coalition’s approach to infrastructure
In June 2015 Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens pleaded with the government to do more to lift the economy. In the past year “public final […]
What if we had a better government, one that was truly great
What if we had a better government? One that has dedicated its term in office to addressing all the social, economic, and environmental challenges we […]
In 2017 let’s be the change we want to see
By 2353NM Well, look at that. 2016 is finished and 2017 has arrived to present us with more challenges. To be brutally honest, 2016 wasn’t […]
Seriously, why would you vote for Pauline Hanson?
“The problem with Hanson is that she moans about what she doesn’t like but never says much about anything else”, wrote Zathras. Could she be […]
Our Government’s Misguided Ignorance About Debt
On October 11, 2009, during the post GFC wash-up, American economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times under the heading, “Misguided Monetary Mentalities”: […]