Senior DIBP official overrules medical experts yet again
The case of an African asylum seeker detained on Nauru and known as S99 is currently before the federal court, in an effort to have her […]
Politics
A Collective of Idiots
Three important articles have been published this month that highlight the declining state of the Australian economy. Despite the rhetoric from leading government members, things […]
Day to Day Politics: A Government in disarray.
Friday April 29 2016 – 66 1 On the eve of the 2016/17 Budget the Turnbull Government finds itself in disarray. Next Tuesday the Treasurer […]
Let us not forget
As we are dragged kicking and screaming into interminable weeks of sickening electioneering that will, yet again, have asylum seekers and refugees as one of […]
A government in opposition and the media who put them there
In June 2013, the Age newspaper printed an editorial calling for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to stand aside “for the good of the nation“. The […]
Drug testing the unemployed for God
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz is reported to be in favour of drug testing welfare recipients to ensure they are ‘job ready’. An idea originally raised […]
Turnbull will always govern for the big end of town
Once upon a time, long before Malcolm was Prime Minister, he could do or say anything he liked and nobody gave a damn. There was […]
Policy from behind the scenes
By Ken Wolff Any good public servant will tell you that policy is determined by government ministers. In Senate Estimates, and other committees, you will […]
Where is the evidence?
Before the 2013 election, Malcolm Turnbull said “The politicians and parties that can demonstrate they can be trusted, that they will not insult the people […]
Who’s to blame for demise of the Australian economy
By Mark Clifford A picture tells a thousand words, so I’ll let the attached graph do all the talking. Briefly, the graph is based on […]
Death by bureaucrat: this is not a metaphor
On ABC’s Four Corners last night we heard a Department of Immigration and Border Protection employee make the chilling decision to override a doctor’s request […]
Telling fibs about negative gearing
From the moment a Labor policy is announced, the mainstream media is filled with the dire words from Coalition politicians warning that this policy will […]
Castles in the Air
By 2353NM One of the points of difference between the Turnbull government and the Shorten opposition is negative gearing. We would all still be here […]
Mums and Dads – Malcolm wants YOU as a new recruit
Yes, Mums and Dads, Malcolm wants you. He wants you, he wants you, he wants you as a new recruit. Sing it with me now…. […]
From adolescent hope to mild despair in just forty short years
By James Moylan In just forty years the ‘Australian ethos’ has transformed itself utterly. We no longer believe we are ‘lucky’. Disillusionment and distrust has […]