The chilling reality of the TPP
The TPP was conceived in 2003 as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP) as a path to trade liberalisation in the Asia-Pacific. The original participating countries […]
Politics
A leader should not lie
With everyone still reeling from the budget delivered last May, and distracted by Tony Abbott’s determination to commit political suicide, Joe Hockey’s MYEFO statement delivered […]
Cruel and unnecessary deaths
Last year 630 Australians died as a result of Hepatitis C. More will die, reports Graham Osborne, while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee rejects calls […]
The Elephants in the Press Gallery
The Press Gallery have been busily, emphatically, excitedly making the most of the new leadership tensions story that Abbott has gifted them over the past […]
If you want this choice position…
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that we will be governed either by the Labor Party or by the Liberal Party in coalition with several […]
Immigration Detention: try living with the life changing effects
So many experts have warned the government about the effects of detention on asylum seekers. The experts have been publicly denouncing detention for years, yet we detain […]
A bombshell hits some Job Networks
Each and every fortnight for the last year I have done the right turning up thing. Actually, that is not quite accurate. For most of […]
Tony Abbott’s horror week is now news in Indonesia
American think tank the Council on Foreign Relations made the headlines in Australia this week when their scathing report on Tony Abbott, aptly titled ‘Tony […]
Should the Senate Block Supply?
Was this week’s performance in and out of parliament what PM Tony Abbott meant when he told us “good government starts today”? How did it […]
You should be ashamed of yourself
Mr Abbott’s virulent attack against Gillian Triggs and the Human Rights Commission clearly demonstrates the type of person ‘we have elected’ to lead our country […]
Hockey on the Ropes
Have you noticed that Joe Hockey has been doing the rounds of radio, television and print lately, moaning and groaning about his problems with the […]
Has privatisation passed its use-by date?
On Q&A last Monday, RBA board member Heather Ridout expressed her disappointment at the decision by the voters of Queensland to reject the Newman government’s […]
Dear Mr Abbott, unlike God, the people are not infinitely forgiving
“Good government starts today” promised Prime Minister Tony Abbott, fresh from his party’s first failed spill motion this morning in which 39 members of his […]
Will Tony Abbott’s words come back to haunt him?
Anyone who has been on Twitter today would have no doubt seen this tweet from any number of Twitter users: Electronic graffiti? “@TeddyMercer: The Internet […]
The day terror hit our shores . . . or not
After achieving a resounding affirmation that, along with the majority of Australians, 40% of his own party want to get rid of him, Tony Abbott […]