Politics
Morrison: Opportunity Lost to Attack Racism or Political Expediency?
By Dr Stewart Hase Good leaders know that what they say influences people. This is particularly true for political leaders because they have followers that […]
Tin pot dictators, timid sycophants, and corporate schills – is that the best we can do?
“There is,” said an Italian philosopher, “nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to […]
Guide to an Insurrection
By John Haly Just when we thought 2020 was finished, 2021 got off to a foreboding start as Americans attacked their own capitol building in […]
Is Scott Morrison guilty of cloning Donald Trump?
Amid the trumped-up support of Donald Trump, you might remember the time he made some lewd comments, on a recording, about women. The one where […]
Trump’s Enigmatic Legacy
Unsurprisingly, there are those here in Australia who are mourning the departure of this enigma of American politics. Why? Trump was neither a leader or […]
Protecting our heritage and our future from Morrison’s band of marauders
As Scott Morrison plays to a Queensland audience to launch his government’s supposed “gas led recovery”, absent is any mention of climate change, the environment, […]
Seven years later…
The Liberal Party have a very handy page that lists their achievements over the last 7 years, 4 months and 11 days (not that I’m […]
Reading the COVID Fine Print: The Undoing of the Australian Open
The decision to go ahead with the Australian Open, the first of the grand slams of the tennis calendar, was always going to be fraught […]
How many lies are too many lies?
By Dr Stewart Hase “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell The storming of America’s Bastille, the Capitol […]
The Trumpists are thriving in Oz
“Facts sometimes are contentious, aren’t they? And what you may think is right, somebody else might think is completely untrue. And that’s part of living […]
Is Scott Morrison a Donald Trump lite?
Donald Trump and Scott Morrison have much in common. Their policies and decisions show them both to be opinionated, self-centred, dangerously narcissistic and lacking in […]
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and Australia’s Complicity
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little in the statement from her department, which was a good thing, as it might have been dangerously useful. […]
When your government thinks banning Trump from Twitter is the real injustice
The response of the Australian government to US President Donald Trump’s incitement of the January 6 attack on the US Congress was, shall we say, […]
Freedom of Speech is Dead!
“Free speech is dead and controlled by leftist overlords.” Thus the shrill voice of Donald Trump Jr. informed those who were prepared to listen to […]