Federal Election Tracker 2016: I’m calling it
Final Update on 8 July at 8:30am I’m calling it folks. I’m packing up my election ‘night’ desk for another three years. While there are […]
Politics
Missing in action: a tale of two narratives
It is hard to understand why the media are surprised at another undecided election result where we are once again headed towards minority government, since […]
John Howard should apologise… for his naivety if nothing else
Guest writer, Arthur Plottier looks at the Chilcot report and its implications for one of the Iraq War’s strongest advocates, then Australian Prime Minister, John […]
The Liberal’s ‘unsellable’ agenda
One of the most interesting post-election whinges we’ve seen from the Liberals is Perth MP, Andrew Hastie’s confession that he found it hard to stay […]
Balance of Power: Federal Election 2016 – Day Five
Update at 9:00 am, 7 July 2016 (with mini-update at 6:30 pm below) At 9:00 am on 7 July, in my increasingly ill-named ‘Election night’ tracker – […]
The Liberal lie continues
By Ken Wolff In his speech on election night, as reported by The Guardian, Malcolm Turnbull: … accused the Labor party of running “some of […]
LNP to Voters: “You Idiots!”
By James Moylan The LNP still don’t believe they lost the election. The post-election narrative they are now selling to anyone who will listen is […]
Balance of Power Tracker: 2016 Federal Election Results Update
Update at 7:00 pm, 6 July 2016 At 7:00 pm on 6 July, since my update at 8am this morning, there’s been a lot more counting of postal votes […]
Choosing aunty over mum and dad
So little Johnny, who is your favourite parent? Mummy or Daddy? Aunty Heather! I want Aunty Heather! Yes, this is a simplistic metaphor, but you […]
The Perils of Pauline
Pauline Hanson has re-emerged as mouthpiece for the nation’s racism, going where the dog whistlers dare not venture, vocalising “what ordinary people are really thinking […]
A Very Interesting Photo!
Check out who owns the domain name: “handsoffthecfa.com”! http://whois.domaintools.com/handsoffthecfa.com Just in case it’s ownership changes, here’s a photo of what I found! (Click here for […]
What we’ve learned
By Steve Laing Confusion will be my epitaph. If you don’t listen to early King Crimson, you perhaps won’t know that lyric, but it does […]
Meet Malcolm Roberts, Pauline Hanson’s “expert” on climate change.
Meet Malcolm Roberts, Pauline Hanson’s “expert” on climate change. Roberts is/was the project manager for the climate sceptic group the Galileo Movement. The mission of the […]
The Myth of Inter-generational Debt
The Commonwealth government gross national debt, which currently stands at $421 billion is not debt in the true sense of the word. When the government […]
LNP: “It’s not us, it’s them”
Caretaker Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday blamed an alleged “scare campaign” by Labor concerning LNP threats to Medicare, for the swing against the government in […]