Turnbull and Dutton wage war on women
When Tony Abbott was Prime Minister it was difficult to imagine myself feeling more contempt and loathing for any politician than the contempt and loathing […]
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We must find a better way
While we all enjoy the Aussie wit unleashed by helicopter ‘misjudgements’ and raw onion eating gaffes, our obsession with gotcha moments often overshadows the good […]
Has anything changed? Not judging by the comments
While many Australians, and no doubt the rest of the world, are still breathing a collective sigh of relief at the deposal of Tony Abbott, […]
A Political Watcher’s Pig Heaven
Over the last two years a number of articles have been written here at the AIMN about tax expenditures and the need to rein them in if […]
The relevance of Tony Abbott
By Paul G. Dellit Now That The Lunatic Is No Longer In Charge Of The Asylum . . . That’s unfair. Tony Abbott neither is […]
Abbott’s Stockpile of Hubris
In his first interview after losing the Liberal leadership, Tony Abbott gives us his take on how his government performed with him as Prime Minister. […]
The same but different …
When Turnbull ‘knifed’ Abbott a week ago after publically shaming Abbott’s terrible government on national television while announcing his intent-to-knife, I wondered how the mainstream […]
How I fell off the Chair
Greg Sheridan’s eulogy of the Abbott Prime Ministerial era in The Australian yesterday, says a lot about his loyalty to a close friend, but little […]
Back to climate change is crap
In case you were wondering, Australia still loves coal. Or so it would appear from an astonishing outburst from Senator Ian Macdonald yesterday. “The children […]
Dear Tony: It’s not us. It’s you.
Dear Tony It’s over. We’re done. You need to pack up your stuff and leave. It’s not us – it’s you. I’d like to say it’s […]
The visionary vs the wrecker
Proactive is not a word that can be used to describe Tony Abbott – regressive would be a far more appropriate term. A comparison to […]
Abbott’s ‘Jobs and Growth’ a Sham
Employment figures for August released on Thursday show an economy that has already changed down to first gear, on the verge of slipping into neutral, […]
Skin in the game
Andrew Robb admitted on Insiders that 84% of 457 workers who are currently employed were not subject to labour market testing and that that situation […]
Abbott: Master of lies, damned lies and statistics
“There were three gradations of inveracity – there were lies, there were damned lies, and there were statistics” (Arthur Balfour, 1892). You may have noticed […]