Broad church vs damaging splitters
Instead of a billboard announcing boat arrivals (which was apparently not aiding people smugglers), the Coalition have gone for a scoreboard of how many Labor […]
Politics
The Income Divide in Australia: The Return of Class-Based Politics?
By Denis Bright For the first time in generations, issues about social class are intruding into the 2016 election agenda. Barnaby Joyce made an unintended […]
Breaking the Dog Whistle
You can’t blame the Liberals and their communications strategists for believing the demonization of refugees is a vote winner. The rise of Pauline Hanson, who […]
When Turnbull still gave a shit
In July 2011, Malcolm Turnbull addressed the Virginia Chadwick Foundation. The following is an excerpt from his speech: “….the most significant but least tractable threat […]
Flagship Flailing, Coalition Failing
We are now well into the second week of the election campaign and it would seem the Coalition is starting to feel the heat. Their […]
Fact free campaigning – we’ve heard it all before
As I move into the 31st business day without EFTPOS (and thanks for nothing Lucy Wicks and Mitch Fifield – you have been a great […]
The campaign bus
By 2353NM So who’s enjoying the current federal election campaign? The television stations certainly are as they are boosting their revenue by the second through […]
Wealthy conservatives can’t understand people who aren’t them
It is Tuesday night and I have had a very hard day with my business which STILL, after almost two months, is having problems with […]
Rest in Peace
Rest in Peace, another few hundred thousand Australian workers and their families. Labor Senator Kim Carr today fails to deliver for the Australian automotive industry, […]
The mythical $80,000
By 2353NM Some reading this would be able to remember the days when the urban dream was the quarter acre block in a ‘nice’ suburb, […]
Piss off ya nasty old bludger
According to a 2015 headline in Rupert Murdoch’s rag, The Australian, “No, the rich don’t pay a ‘fair share’ of tax. They pay all of […]
Negative Gearing was designed by God
DO NOT PANIC. The Labor Party might want to destroy our way of life and utterly debauch all of the maidens in our midst but […]
An Open Letter to Peter van Onselen
Dear Peter On Monday you asked this question on Twitter and seemed quite flabbergasted about the situation, so I thought I’d do you the favour […]
Let them eat toast
By now, you’ve probably all heard the tale of Duncan Storrar, the man on $20,000 a year who asked assistant treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer on QandA why […]
Regarding insignificant questions and spontaneous swearing
Hard-hitting cutting-edge political commentary goes right to the heart of an issue. The best practitioners carefully sieve and weigh competing ideas, contentions, and stories. They […]