Cheap-labour conservatives
Several years ago, US blogger Conceptual Guerilla coined a three-word slogan that explains right wing ideology very succinctly – “cheap-labour conservatives”. He agrees with Karl […]
Politics
Why must it always be the workers who pay?
The foundation of the Australian Federal Minimum Wage was the 1907 Harvester decision where Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, […]
Malcolm’s test
In six weeks’ time, we will see if Malcolm Turnbull is a leader of substance or a snake oil salesman. You have to admire his […]
Malcolm Fears neither Debt nor the Conservatives.
What a monumental turn around. In a newspaper interview this week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off the Abbott-Hockey debt and deficit rhetoric and […]
Squeaky Clean
Putting aside the fact that Julia Gillard was treated as a back-stabbing-murderess after she replaced Kevin Rudd as PM. Putting aside that she was labelled […]
Canadian Election: Paradigm Change for the Better?
Denis Bright invites discussion about the rise of inclusive politics in Canada with the formation of a majority Liberal government after nine long years in […]
The tearing down of our social fabric
Yesterday Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells addressed the National Press Club on conservatism in contemporary Australian society. According to the Senator, she, and her views, represent the […]
Bodies that matter. Bodies that don’t.
It’s profoundly concerning that Abyan, the Somali refugee currently living on Nauru and victim of a rape that left her pregnant, was forbidden to see […]
Am I not pretty enough?
When I recently saw a photograph of Julie Bishop’s boyfriend David Panton sitting next to her in the official delegates section on the floor of […]
Morrison’s Dilemma
Within a comparatively short space of time, we are starting to see our new Treasurer’s ‘modus operandi’ toward economic reform. Scott Morrison’s recent claim that […]
Human Rights “Roundtable” – has Australia become a Soft Theocracy?
By Brian Morris Has the Christian lobby influenced the Human Rights Commission (HRC) in discrimination against gays? If the answer is “no”, why has the […]
The Second Marshmallow
We need to start encouraging our society to wait for the second marshmallow. I’m not suggesting this will be an easy task, but I am […]
Turnbull and Dutton wage war on women
When Tony Abbott was Prime Minister it was difficult to imagine myself feeling more contempt and loathing for any politician than the contempt and loathing […]
Labor’s empty promise
Much has been made of the influence of trade unions and the power of factions within the Australian Labor Party and rightly so considering some […]
People in glass houses
With the very real prospect of Tony Windsor challenging Barnaby Joyce for the seat of New England, Joyce, in true Coalition style, has reached for […]