Billionaires, Banks, Bureaucrats and the Bible
By Brian Morris Why is it that with each new financial scandal that breaks there’s invariably a grubby link between corporate greed, weak politicians and […]
Politics
What can we expect in the coming election?
By Ken Wolff Apart from the obvious statements, we can also tell there is an election in the air as, after six months of inactivity, […]
The ongoing News Limited ‘reality show’
By James Moylan We all know that the Queensland Government just ‘OK’d’ the largest coal mine ever to be built, which will employ oodles and […]
Can Shorten Win?
When Malcolm Turnbull made his pitch to the media the day he successfully challenged Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership, he warned of the […]
Trump de l’oeil
(Trompe de l’oeil is an art technique that creates the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Literally “trick the eye”). That Republican Presidential […]
Manufacturing is not dead, it’s just transitioning
By Mel Mac In recent days there has been much conjecture as to who let Arrium get into over $4bn worth of debt and the […]
Perceptions of corruption
By 2353NM During March, in what strategists at the time claimed was a masterstroke, Prime Minister Turnbull recalled the Parliament from April 18 primarily to […]
This is not the Australia I know and love
When some people speak of the previous Labor government, they talk of disunity or of debt, which ignores the many wonderful achievements of the Rudd/Gillard […]
Inequality will be a hot button election issue
By Ad astra ‘Inequality’ is a term used by economists. Joseph Stiglitz has been writing for years about its damaging effect. His book: The Price […]
Malcolm Faces a Struggle
The mainstream media may not have noticed but there has been an increase in union bashing on social media over the past 5 days. It […]
Day to Day Politics: It’s bloody simple when you think about it … a Royal Commission, that is
Wednesday 13 April. 1 Labor proposes a Royal Commission into the financial sector. Particularly the banks. The establishment and those of a conservative ilk cry […]
If Malcolm was a Homeless Youth
Today, I take a crystal ball view at the tautological, verbose, pontificated lectures Malcolm Turnbull would bestow upon us, if he was, (by way of innovative technology of course), somehow transformed into a homeless youth.
Was Andrew Robb naive or just after a photo shoot?
Andrew Robb has been hailed as the architect of one of the Coalition’s greatest achievements – their free trade agreements, hastily signed after years of […]
The calamitous Abbott lies in wait
By Ad astra You may wonder why anyone would waste time writing about this man, erased from the top job by his own party, and […]
A Political Watcher’s Rollercoaster
If the government fails to get its ABCC legislation through the senate in a few weeks’ time and Malcolm Turnbull calls a double dissolution election, […]