Actions speak louder than words
Joe Hockey has been making noise about tax avoidance. “They’re stealing from us and our community,” he told the Nine Network on Friday, labelling tax […]
A Great Opportunity Lost
So, the much anticipated and touted G20 is upon us. It will be interesting watching our leaders rubbing shoulders with other world leaders. Doubtless, each […]
The forgotten poor – until we need a few bucks
Tony Abbott has vowed to lift the poor of India and China from their poverty by selling them coal. But what about poor people in […]
Abbott’s Consistency in the Coalition of Contradiction
Let’s start with Andrew Bolt: More booing from the mob as Abbott leaves. There is a tendency among all collectives to not be satisfied with […]
Idolatry-of-Self
You don’t have to be a religious person to find the study of religious texts thought-provoking. I have had many a philosophical debate about, for […]
New powers for Scott Morrison
AIMN reader Susan Argall alerts us to yet another attack on our rights that should have us all extremely concerned. The following is a post […]
Who will flip the switch?
Claims in Melbourne’s Herald-Sun today that there are corrupt elements associated with the desal plant at Wonthaggi seem like a pretty flimsy attempt to influence voters […]
Joining the dots
I, like many others, was bemused by our government’s tardy response to the Ebola crisis. I know they were advised that infected health workers might […]
Will Brandis Shirt-Front Morrison? Can Morrison please be the Demtel Man?
Originally published on Polyfeministix We often ask each other “If you had a superpower what would it be?” Scott Morrison’s superpower was revealed yesterday. He […]
Take your coal and shove it
Whilst Abbott, Hunt, Palmer and Newman regale us with their humanitarian effort to lift India out of poverty by selling them coal, the Indians recognise […]
Words are cheap, but Direct Action sure isn’t.
In an interview on Lateline in October last year, Greg Hunt said that the carbon price “doesn’t work”, “doesn’t do the job” and is “a […]
How Long can Hockey Survive?
For someone whose popularity was the envy of everyone in the new Coalition government earlier this year, Joe Hockey must be wondering what the hell […]
Julie Bishop and the privilege of not self-identifying as a feminist
Originally published on http://polyfeministix.wordpress.com/ Is standing up and proclaiming to be a non-feminist a sign of personal success, or is it an insular subconscious privileged […]
Book Review: A Murder Unmentioned, by Sulari Gentill
Here I am again breaking into a series. A Murder Unmentioned (2014) is the sixth in a series set mostly in New South Wales in […]
Christians are Terrorists too
It’s a good thing that most Christians don’t believe everything the Bible teaches. If they did then wholesale slaughter and gratuitous violence would be the […]