The Coalition money shuffle
One of Joe Hockey’s first acts as Treasurer in 2013 was to gift the RBA $8.8 billion. The main reason for this was to make […]
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Now is NOT the time to be a ‘quiet Australian’
There is a disturbing trend emerging in Australia where the government is increasingly trying to silence the people. They have painted unionists as lawless thugs […]
Empathy. They have none.
Anne Ruston and Peter Dutton stand out among their Coalition colleagues, since both stand out as seeming to be supremely incapable of empathy. Their blindness […]
How bad does the LNP have to get before people stop voting for them?
By Kathryn Is it possible we could ever have a worse government than the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison circus? Not to diminish the absolute mess the Howard/Costello government […]
How Good Is Communism? OR ScoMo The Trotskyist
For years, we’ve been warned about the left turning us into a nanny state and trying to control everything. We’ve heard how the Communists want […]
The Messiah from the Shire and other advertising slogans
If you believe the media, Scott Morrison is popular with the electorate because he is “genuine”. Apparently, he is a man of conviction, a man […]
Dutton: The Lone Voice of Cruelty…
I am going to make this short. Australia wants the Biloela Family to stay! While Peter Dutton clearly believes that white au pairs for his […]
Uncovering the ruthless heart of the Liberal Party
By Ad Astra Dedicated observers of the political scene in Australia owe much to Niki Savva. Although she has been a political correspondent for News […]
Pell appeal verdict unleashes a perfect storm for our Tory ruling class
Head bowed, a manacled cardinal is led hobbling out of court into a prison van, a shocking image calculated to rock our nation’s Tories to […]
Morrison’s monumental dysfunctional Pacific “family” failure
No matter how much money you put on the table it doesn’t give you the excuse not to do the right thing, which is cutting […]
Condescension and Climate Change: Australia and the Failure of the Pacific Islands Forum
It was predictably ugly: in tone, in regret, and, in some ways, disgust. Australia emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting isolated, the true […]
In Barnaby’s world, everything is about him
It comes as no surprise that the bill to have NSW catch up to the rest of the country in decriminalising abortion has all of […]
The Australian Dark Age
Can you imagine a dystopian future Australia ruled by an extremely conservative and fundamentalist religious government with attendant undertones of fascism and racism thrown in […]
ScoMo’s captain’s pick could sink the entire ship.
What do you do when your Treasury secretary, a controversial, political posting in 2018, claims that workers are to blame for their own wage stagnation? […]
How good is this crap we are dishing up
Scott Morrison has instructed Coalition MPs that they are not to talk about anything that they did not take to the election. No-one is to […]