Let’s All Buy Fairfax Shares and Stop publishing Amanda Vanstone
I always try to consider the possibility that I may be wrong. In 1975, I was one of the few students to say that Malcolm […]
Coalition Treachery Cannot Stand
Opinion: As reported recently in various news outlets, including The Age and recounted here at The AIMN by Rossleigh, it is the Coalition’s intention to […]
Sick of hearing about those bloody boat people – Scott Morrison has the answer!
“Australians may never know how many asylum-seeker boats arrive under a Coalition government, with opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison refusing to release details about boat […]
Your vote might just be worth something after all
News.com.au have published an excellent and timely article, Federal Election promises, cuts and what they mean for you by Sarah Michael, which briefly examines Kevin […]
An Open Letter to Fairfax Media Limited
To whom it may concern, A great deal has been said about the media in Australia of late, especially with regard to political coverage. Most […]
And The Winner Is …
This is emphatically not an election campaign about policy. Labor’s are mostly already in place and the Coalition doesn’t have any “big ticket” policies that […]
Literally doesn’t mean literally anymore, and the Conservatives have been Radicals since the 80s
The word ‘literally’ has been redefined in the Oxford English Dictionary – to include what is widely accepted as the ‘wrong’ definition.The dictionary has altered their […]
Careless whispers nothing to dance about
In my years of being old enough to know what an election campaign is, I cannot recall one so inundated with media tales of what […]
Joe Hockey Manages to Smear Himself
The Courier Mail today ran a story revealing that would-be Treasurer Joe Hockey failed to declare a family interest for most of the duration of […]
People told me to read between the lines, but I didn’t see anything written there!
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition policy to pay long-term unemployed young people who find a job up to $15,500 is “a sensible investment”. […]
Since when did we become a greedy nation?
Watching QandA last night I was struck dumb when a young female member of the audience pounced on Bill Shorten for the government not matching […]
An Open Letter to Journalists at News Ltd
Dear News Ltd Journalists, I’m writing you this letter on behalf of all Australians. That includes everyone who can vote in the upcoming election, as […]
Talking about my generation
I was thinking the other day about my generation, or the people I come into contact with from my generation, and how little they care […]
Bias – Are we talking lawn bowls or loaded dice?
Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a “jack” or […]
Abbott v Rudd in the Education Debate
TONY ABBOTT: Leigh, I think the education debate, the school education debate shouldn’t be about funding, it should be about quality, and that’s what we’re […]