The biggest scam against Aboriginal Australia
One of the biggest political scams in Australia is unfolding and the only people seeing it are our first inhabitants, writes Vanessa Kairies. Vanessa, a […]
Punishment or Pride
The Abbott government’s approach to the problems facing Indigenous Australians is reactionary rather than visionary. Their paternalistic punitive measures are designed to address symptoms and […]
Abbott in trouble again as Leadership speculation re-surfaces
As one pores over the plethora of MSM articles written by a number of political editors since the Bronwyn Bishop resignation, one gets the feeling […]
NAPLAN, Domestic Violence, Corruption And Good Old Uncle Otto!
Ideas are a bit like being caught it in a river; it’s easy to be swept along without stopping to actually think about whether or […]
Cashless Welfare Card – an insult to all Australians
Australians are fortunate in many ways. Despite the best efforts of the Abbott Government to further marginalise vulnerable people, the majority of the population lives […]
Ok. I’m convinced. Terrorism is THE BIGGEST threat to Australia right now.
I have to confess that it’s taken me a while to get here. A few months back, when Tony Abbott said: “Daesh is coming, if […]
The UK experience
Tony Abbott announced a whole-scale review of the entitlements system – to be led by former head of the Department of Finance, David Tune, and […]
Arts – And Not Just For Art’s Sake!
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt” Bertrand Russell Basically […]
Forget the carbon tax – politicians are killing commercial airlines
According to the Telegraph, during the height of Choppergate, Warren Truss got a private charter flight from Port Macquarie to Sydney after a sod-turning ceremony […]
Mr. Abbott – These People Had a More Difficult Day Than Bronny
Tony Abbott, Prime Minister, told Australians that “it had been a ‘very difficult day’ for Mrs Bishop.” I’d like to take this opportunity to share with Tony Abbott the range of people who have also had a ‘very difficult day’ today because of the cuts and broken promises and poor decisions of the Prime Minister and his Government.
Abbott blames the system. Bishop is its victim. Oh, that’s so funny
Prime Minister Tony Abbott today absolves his “political mother” Bronwyn Bishop from all wrong doing: What has become apparent, particularly over the last few days, […]
This Week: the Fall of representative democracy
By François Crespel Over the course of this week, some events have hammered the first nails in the coffin of representative democracy as we know […]
Why Tony isn’t pointing fingers
With all the furore about Bronwyn Bishop’s ever-growing list of expense abuses, little attention has been paid to those of Tony Abbott who, in the […]
Abbott the Dragon Slayer: The art of making scary mountains out of molehills
Unless you’ve been on a desert island or in a coma, you’ve heard Tony Abbott boast over and over and over again that: “We’ve had […]
Adam Goodes: Free Speech Vs the Moral Authority to Express a View
Our Constitution does not guarantee free speech. It only implies that we have it. That being said, we assume that anyone has a right to […]