Integrity, transparency, honesty – and ethics
In addition to studying ethics as part of my law degree, I have also served on two university ethics committees, the second one as the […]
Politics
Murdoch and Morrison – partners in grime
If asked to nominate a politician with a penchant for titty bars I suspect most people could name the distended Member for Manila and ping-pong […]
A chink of light in the darkness
In a recent Letter to the Editor of the NT News, I mentioned my weekly sessions outside NT Parliament House. [As an aside, it never […]
Dan Andrews stares down the lynch mob
By Ad astra If you detest Dan Andrews and want him gone, stop reading now. What follows will not please you. As a citizen of […]
SCOTT MORRISON IS GUILTY!
I am sure that I can rely on readers to add to the list of the multitude of sins for which, if he were a […]
Another week in a government going from bad to worse
A short time ago I wrote these words: “The worse they govern the more popular they become.” This week’s post budget Newspoll confirms it to […]
One law for them – and a massively different one for us!
‘Gordon Legal launched the [Robo-debt] action on behalf of an estimated class of up to 600,000 people last year [2019], claiming the government unjustly enriched […]
Dropped Prosecutions: The Afghan Files, Public Interest Journalism and Dan Oakes
In July 2017, two journalists working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, wrote of a stash of incriminating documents, running into […]
Ruby-faced Gladys
By John Haly Poor old gullible Gladys #koalakiller Berejiklian has all the emotional desires, so many of us have, and the demands of a taxing job […]
We now have three crises to deal with!
Almost the longest running crisis is Global Warming, which clearly is a global issue, requiring the cooperation of all nations. The more recent, but also […]
Bad form, old chap
Scott Morrison’s arrogance was badly showing while Anthony Albanese was delivering his reply to the budget on Wednesday. Sometimes turning his back or preoccupied with […]
After a brief interlude the Tories are reverting to type
Was it a concupiscent affect of the smell of burning koalas that aroused the stumpy leader of the NSW Nationals Porky Barrels, the Neopolitan Bonaparte […]
Religious profit: Expanding the cashless welfare card ties in with Morrison’s beliefs
The philosophy of the cashless welfare card is the perfect marriage of neoliberal ideology and evangelical Christianity, both of which pathologise, criminalise and individualise poverty […]
The Budget recognises the people it wants to help, and the rest can go to Hell
Remarkable just how ideologically flexible this government is. For almost three terms their abhorrence of debt could not have been more paramount. Now they have […]
Seeking the Post COVID-19 Sunshine: Four More Years of Majority Labor Government in Queensland?
By Denis Bright The release of the YouGov Poll for the Queensland government’s entry into caretaker mode on 5 October 2020: YouGov sampled opinions from […]