Perplexing percentages
(WARNING: For those who find percentages confusing, this may not be the article for you) As I listened to Scott Morrison and Matthias Cormann say […]
Politics
Bill Shorten fires his best weapon
Labor’s bulk email today – signed by Bill Shorten – captured my interest: [textblock style=”3″] Over the weekend something amazing happened. For the first time […]
Sorry seems to be the hardest word
I have always felt that the measure of a person, or an organisation, is how they deal with their mistakes – how quickly they admit error, if […]
Our Government: Traitors to their own people
For the twelve months or so that I have been writing articles advocating the benefits that would come if our government implemented a Modern Monetary […]
How many seniors are venture capitalists?
Every poll shows that the majority of senior citizens vote for the Coalition but it is hard to understand why. As one of its first […]
A climate of being held to account
Wasn’t it brilliant to wake up to the news of a global deal to address climate change? This is cause for celebration. We have a […]
The heart of Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell certainly has a heart condition, one that has been apparent to even the most casual observer for some considerable time. It could […]
Cynical opportunists or dumb as posts – or both?
When Scott Morrison told the shadow cabinet meeting on December 1 2011 at the Ryde Civic Centre that the Coalition should ramp up its questioning […]
Merry Christmas meine liebe frau
I am not sure how excited Howard’s battlers would be, the ubiquitous ‘mums and dads’ that get dragged out occasionally but are usually forgotten in […]
Turnbull’s Innovation – a rebranding of the same old pocketful of promises
Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘Innovation! Package‘, turns out to be another boost to small business and nothing to do with innovation at all. It is another conjuring […]
Is Full Employment also on the Table, Malcolm?
We keep hearing from the government that everything is ‘on the table’ when it comes to tax and other reforms. Really! Does that include a […]
Day to Day Politics. Climate Change: A lay person’s dilemma
Wednesday 9 December. 1 The Paris Climate talks are now in their third week. The coverage of this most important and crucial event in the […]
Fact Check. ICT Students. Malcolm Turnbull
All of these things take a commitment of serious funding. Will Mr. Turnbull and the Liberal Party actually act in good conscience on this, when they have not taken the Gonski reforms seriously? Gonski was a serious innovation in education reform and sadly it was not implemented by the Liberal party as the experts recommended. Its kind of like putting salt in a cake instead of sugar. It is still called a cake and you can say you have a cake, but it is a pretty useless cake.
The Nasty Government
Malcolm Turnbull avails himself of every opportunity to tell us how exciting it is to be alive with his new agile government and its positive […]
Australia: An Impoverished Nation
The year 2015 will likely be remembered as a watershed for the Liberal Party having surrendered what they perceived as the high moral ground of […]