Politics

You may have heard of “the Australia Tax”. The term comes from the apparent difference in the price of a seemingly identical product sold apparently […]

Barnaby Joyce is truly a goose on the loose and the voters of New England should give considerable thought to replacing him with Tony Windsor. […]

By Brian Morris A raft of socio-political issues – under the cold hand of winter – have advanced with all the speed of an Antarctic […]

By Nick Chapman, Independent NSW candidate for the Australian Senate A politician’s job is to represent the people, and run the country for the national […]

On Q&A last night, Christopher Pyne and Anthony Albanese were asked, if we must “live within our means”, why is defence spending quarantined from the […]

By Ad astra If you had to pick a minister to deliver a nasty message, you would not go past Peter Dutton, master of cruel […]

Let’s not give further oxygen to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s nonsensical, bigoted and racist comment the other day regarding refugees coming to this country, taking […]

Three stories from the last day or two bring home very forcibly how our political sphere operates. “A Chinese government-backed propaganda unit and a swag […]

Barry O’Sullivan is the Queensland Senator who was appointed to fill the Senate vacancy left by Barnaby Joyce’s move to the lower house in 2013. […]

By Ad astra Now that the official election campaign has entered its second week, it’s time to assess how each of the major political parties […]

The last three years of Liberal National government have been absolutely nightmarish. Their ideological wrecking-ball has crashed through every imaginable progressive policy area. They have […]

The notion of “public interest” has been officially abandoned. The interests of the government are now paramount and they intend to keep a very tight […]

By Ken Wolff In a previous piece I asked why the freeze on Medicare rebates, that has been in effect since November 2012, was not […]