Good luck, Tony
The decision by Tony Windsor to challenge Barnaby Joyce for his old seat of New England has certainly stirred up a hornet’s nest with the […]
Politics
Day to Day Politics: the Gospel according to Craig
A departure from my usual post today. Craig Emerson is a Facebook friend and posted this last week. A witty piece of satire indeed. Hope […]
The Peta Principle – how Abbott rose to the level of his incompetence
By Ad astra ‘What’s wrong with Tony Abbott?” It’s a question that’s been asked ever since he rose to prominence as party leader, if not […]
Day to Day Politics: Gutless leadership.
Thursday 10 March 2016 1 I have been writing daily about Malcolm Turnbull’s takeover of the Liberal Party leadership. Anyone who follows my writing will […]
Stop the screeching and look in the mirror, Michaelia
As Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash, who has been described as sounding like a “wharfie”, screeches her way through Senate Question Time demanding the reintroduction […]
A Message for the Swinging Voter.
If you are a swinging voter would you, in the light of this government’s behaviour over the past 30 months, think that they deserve to be […]
Day to Day Politics: Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Wednesday 9 March 2016 1 Tuesday’s Newspoll sees both Labor and the Coalition on 50/50 confirming that the poll a fortnight ago wasn’t a rogue […]
IWD: A most exciting time to be a woman
In response to Malcolm Turnbull’s “Remarks to 2016 International Women’s Day Parliamentary Breakfast,” I would like to use this most innovative medium that women all […]
Day to Day Politics: ‘Shambolic’ – I cannot think of a better word.
Tuesday 8 March 2016 1 One would have thought that after Tony Abbott was disposed of, the good government that we were promised so often […]
Abbott’s excuses
In response to Nicky Savva’s tell-all book, Tony Abbott issued a press release in which he, unsurprisingly, sang his own praises. I stopped the boats. […]
Why Abbott’s sex life is my business
There’s only one circumstance in which I consider the sexual lives of politicians to be my business, and that’s when they legislate about what goes […]
Donald Trump: The Fear Whisperer
I hate Huntsman Spiders. Correction – I am terrified of them. It doesn’t matter that I know they can’t kill me. They are a HUGE, […]
How did Trump happen?
I am terrified of Donald Trump. If he wins the Republican nomination, which he looks likely to do, he will no longer be able to […]
The next election is our chance for a people’s revolution
Last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) produced a paper titled Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective. They found that “increasing the […]
In which Pell crosses to the other side of the road
Over the last few days of his questioning at the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, Cardinal George Pell demonstrated the opposite of what his […]