Hands off our icons
Every time I hear a politician say ‘fair dinkum’ I cringe. Aside from sounding silly, it’s the desecration of an icon, the verbal equivalent of […]
Politics
Why Are You Being So Negative? A word in Abbott’s defence!
Every time I pick up the paper, there’s some letter or opinion writer criticising the Liberal Party and accusing Abbott of lying to the electorate. […]
And now for something completely different …
I have been critical lately of our system of government and have been inspired by the words of Ted Mack, Tony Fitzgerald and others (including […]
Can our democracy be saved?
When you see Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, Joe Bullock elected in front of Louise Pratt, Bronwyn Bishop as Speaker, Tim Wilson given a job […]
Simple minds
Politics is a complex beast. The vast majority of Australians don’t want to even think about how complex it is, let alone read articles about […]
Government of the people, by the powerbrokers, for the mates
Ted Mack is credited by Wikipedia as “the only person ever to have been elected and re-elected as an independent to local, state and federal […]
Words matter
Words matter. When things happens in politics, the tone of how events are reported, the words that are used, and the way situations are framed […]
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear
As Tony Abbott once said, “politicians are gonna be judged on everything they say”, (May 2010), and goodness knows, Tony has said some rather controversial things […]
Abbott, “skills beyond his years”
Mark Kenny has been effusive in his praise of Tony Abbott, writing: Abbott in China shows skills beyond his years. My first response was a […]
He Wouldn’t Dare
No matter what Joe Hockey says, he wouldn’t dare upset today’s aged pensioners…would he? As much as he would like to, the consequences of such […]
The Superannuation saga
While a pained Joe Hockey tells us his “truth” about the mess Labor has supposedly left, and that the old age pension is no longer […]
General Alert
Despite diplomatic convention dictating otherwise, in a press conference in Seoul, Tony Abbott continued his bad habit of publicly criticising the previous government for several […]
Abbott’s tyrannical silencing of 1,892,100 possibly critical political opinions
The recent directive from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on the lack of freedom of speech public servants have as private citizens, includes […]
A job application to Clive Palmer
Dear Mr Clive Palmer, May I call you Mr? It’s not Sir Clive yet is it? I’m sure it will be in the offing should […]