Who do you blame when it all goes wrong?
By Dave Chadwick A fairly common theme I have heard from a number of conservative and progressive commentators has been to blame Donald Trump’s election […]
Politics
Deconstructing far-right obstacles to Australian progressivism
By Denis Bright Revisiting the 2016 Federal Election Results From small primary votes at the 2016 federal elections, candidates from the religious right and the […]
Turnbull jumps the shark
Millionaire Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was asked, as he and his Kaminski-millinered wife Lucy served a few Xmas lunches to people doing it tough, about […]
Bjorn again
In December 2015, Australia made a commitment to the global goal “to hold average temperature increase to well below 2°C and pursue efforts to keep […]
Taiwanese Australian Shan Ju Lin joins One Nation as a candidate, and her reasons are completely flawed
I have read all the media surrounding the candidacy of Taiwanese Australian Shan Ju Lin with One Nation. Her reasons for defending Pauline Hanson and […]
Girt by Militarization: Australia’s Strategic Outlook in the Trump Era
By Denis Bright In this season of goodwill, it is surely in Australia’s interests to work towards the demilitarization of both the Indian Ocean and […]
A message to the suppositories
From Malcolm and the rest of us to the Suppositories “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a […]
When lower taxes and wages don’t work, there’s always defence
When Tony Abbott launched his election campaign in 2013, he promised that “the motor industry will be saved from Mr Rudd’s $1.8 billion tax on […]
George Takei makes an impassioned call for Mexican Americans to stop Trump
Outspoken, witty and influential. Three words that can only describe a hero of all sorts, George Takei. But even though it has been forty four […]
The myth of jobs growth
Turnbull’s “Jobs and Growth” campaign inspired many in Australia to vote for whom they believed were the better economic managers of our economy. Yet in […]
The barbie bigot looks back on the year
By Ken Wolff [Editor’s note: the use of ‘septic’ in this article is from the rhyming slang – ‘septic tank’ rhymes with ‘Yank’, so ‘septic’ […]
MYEFO, a tale of incompetence
What a tale the 2016/17 December MYEFO tells. And it’s not what the Treasurer is saying. Firstly, Scott Morrison is projecting a return to surplus in […]
Is Turnbull about to end 25 years of growth?
Australia’s last recession was 25 years ago in 1991. As 2016 finishes, the previous quarter’s figures suggest that this 25 years of good fortune could […]
Lose an election? Not to worry. Have we got a job for you!
Remember Jamie Briggs, the Minister sacked from his position for “inappropriate behaviour” towards a female colleague and then summarily ousted in the election, losing the […]
Letters from a Labor Activist: November/December 2016
[textblock style=”3″] Letters to ‘The Age’ and ‘The Herald-Sun’ from a Labor Activist (November/December 2016); Everything from ‘Public Debt Shibboleths’ to Privatisation, Defending Democracy, the Right […]