Someone told me…
The leader of One Nation in Queensland, Steve Dickson, has been forced to apologise over comments he made about the Safe Schools program in which […]
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Time for the G-G to step in.
Yesterday we heard Greens Senator, Richard Di Natale say the magic words…that he was prepared to ask the Governor General to dissolve the parliament and […]
Turnbull must urgently clarify whether or not he is entitled to Israeli citizenship
The S44 citizenship saga has thrown up possible queries concerning the citizenship status of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The first is this interview with the Times of Israel […]
In which the gas chambers are invoked to distract from dual citizenship. Yes. Really.
I planned on beginning this piece with: “The latest MP to fall foul of S44 in the current citizenship saga is Minister for Energy, Josh […]
Why can’t the nation own the NBN?
The NBN rollout has now been exposed for the debacle that it is. The ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night saw to that. It […]
Politicians, sex, and the Press Gallery
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear to me, the Daily Telegraph decided on Saturday to publish a piece (paywalled) inferring that Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce […]
Turnbull government fails Australia on jobs and energy
Super Mal, our super-antihero PM, the down-under “wonder-gunner” blitzes Canberra’s political firmament this week, lighting up the sky with yet another dazzling flash of super-power […]
‘Spring clean’, anyone?
By Kyran O’Dwyer There is an old adage, “Lie to me once, shame on you. Lie to me twice, shame on me”. Day after day, […]
Cognitive dissonance, collective dishonesty, corrupt dealings or complete dumbness
I am firmly convinced that the entire Coalition suffers from cognitive dissonance. Barnaby Joyce, in an opinion piece for a Tamworth newspaper bemoaning the “malicious […]
Welcome to the new economy: Brought to you by the Coalition Government
By Terence Mills Punitive legislation to hobble and ultimately cripple the union movement has been a key strategy of both government and employer groups in […]
Abbott: Majority Doesn’t Rule Unless I Agree With Them!
Just when I started thinking how pleasant it is here in New Zealand where the press don’t report everything that the person leading the Liberal […]
Turnbull’s new security suite will not make any of us any safer
Never get between a premier and a bucket of money, Paul Keating warned. Or a Premier and an anti-terror photo-opportunity, he might add, after Thursday’s […]
The jet-setting Steve Ciobo
If you were wondering why you haven’t seen Steven Ciobo, our Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, lately, it’s because he is rarely in the […]
Abbott headbutt stops nation
It’s the head-butt that stops the nation. Tony Abbott is nutted by Astro Funknukl Labe, a 38 year-old North Hobart DJ. Labe, a barista, bartender […]
Bernardi and Abbott: a shared pyschosis
And the week finished on a spectacularly self-mutilating note for the No side, with Cory Bernardi and Tony Abbott inadvertently exposing the dark spite at […]