What happened when asylum seekers were sent back to Indonesia: Tony Abbott’s own words
In mid-October 2009, 78 Tamil asylum seekers were intercepted en route to Australia and taken on board the Oceanic Viking. They were then taken to […]
Politics
Give Tony a chance! You’re kidding me!
I quite like the Sydney Morning Herald journalist with the acid wit, Mike Carlton. He’s one of the only journalists left in the country in […]
An Open Letter to Rupert Murdoch
Dear Rupert Murdoch, I am writing with good news. Not good news for you. Let me explain. You are probably in a pretty good mood […]
Defending my right to say what I did about Tony Abbott
I copped a bit of flak for referring to Tony Abbott as the ‘circus clown with the big ears’ in my previous post, and probably rightly […]
Introducing the Minister for Women’s Affairs
This is not a joke. Tony Abbott himself has taken primary responsibility for women’s issues. I’m lost for words so I’ll keep this post brief. […]
Tony Abbott: a man whose words mean nothing
From the moment Tony Abbott emerged as a possible leader of this country the mainstream media went silent on his inability to keep his word. […]
Tony’s women
Jacqueline Maley writes: Prime Minister-elect, we’ve been through this! We’ve talked about it time and time again and we thought it was resolved. After you […]
The job losses Tony Abbott didn’t want to tell you about
Tony Abbott’s pledge to cull 12,000 jobs from the Public Service went down well with the electorate. From the time John Howard took over as […]
What does Abbott stand for?
What exactly does an Abbott government stand for? After reading Julia Gillard’s insightful and useful appraisal of what’s come before and what might come after […]
An Open Letter to Bob Day
Dear Bob Day, I would like it known from the outset that this is not a letter of congratulation. I will not be showing any […]
Whose fault is it?
I once observed that it’d benefit a lot of organizations if someone was paid to take the blame when things go wrong. “We’ve overestimated/underestimated/overspent/missed the […]
Your vote might just be worth something after all
News.com.au have published an excellent and timely article, Federal Election promises, cuts and what they mean for you by Sarah Michael, which briefly examines Kevin […]
And The Winner Is …
This is emphatically not an election campaign about policy. Labor’s are mostly already in place and the Coalition doesn’t have any “big ticket” policies that […]
Careless whispers nothing to dance about
In my years of being old enough to know what an election campaign is, I cannot recall one so inundated with media tales of what […]
Joe Hockey Manages to Smear Himself
The Courier Mail today ran a story revealing that would-be Treasurer Joe Hockey failed to declare a family interest for most of the duration of […]