Let’s not forget the poor miners …
The high-fiving over the repeal of the carbon tax made me despair at the ignorance of our government – a battle lost but the war […]
The Weird World Of Tony Abbott’s Australia
While Googling Tony Abbott – now there’s something I wouldn’t have imagined myself doing twenty five years ago – I came across an interesting quote […]
Sitting in Judgement of Abbott’s First Year
The first anniversary of an Abbott led government is almost upon us. What yardstick do we use to judge its performance? For me there is […]
When People Break The Law
Let’s take a look at Peter Greste for a second. He must have known that he was breaking the Egyptian law. Or at the very […]
Is Clive Palmer the de facto Prime Minister?
It’s an odd sounding question but not without foundation. Clive Palmer’s bombshell press conference with Al Gore where he announced his party’s voting intentions in […]
The Miser’s Apprentice
I recently came across an article from 2009 called The Howard Impact which compares Australia’s performance against seventeen other advanced democracies including the United States, […]
The ABC of Bias
“Brooks found not guilty of hacking charges” Headline in “The Herald-Sun” Ok, it seems to go like this. Private media companies are allowed to […]
The Grey Army
Young people starting out in life are a great resource for our future. Investing in them, giving them a helping hand to get started, is […]
Australia flying blind
In this article Warwick Smith reports why the decision by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to discontinue many programs including the Measures of Australia’s Progress due […]
Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia
“To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We couldn’t agree more. David, a […]
A Lesson in Displacement at the Bureau of Worldly Advice
Refugees are people. Let’s treat them as such. Loz Lawrey shares a recent experience with some refugees and despairs at the treatment this country affords […]
The Ridiculous Debt and Deficit Scam
After a weekend of intense study reading a plethora of material online from a variety of economists I am at the point where, similar to […]
High Speed Rail
Australia and Antarctica are now the only two continents in the world where there is no high speed rail project underway. As part of the […]
Et fixa regimen Abbott praeteritum OR Let’s Examine The Respective Plans of The Parties.
Last week, while acting as goal umpire, I signalled a goal to our team. Although it came out of a pack, I had a clear […]
We Need to Talk About Tony!
When the people around me give their views on the Abbott Government, I have to admit that I’m definitely one of the undecided. While some people I […]