Would you give your bank statements to Births, Deaths & Marriages?
For reasons of privacy, I don’t like giving my bank statements to the government – but I’ve just been required to do exactly that. After four […]
Government
Day to Day Politics: Polls Apart in Policy.
Tuesday 16 February 2016 1 Malcolm Turnbull still has a handsome lead over Bill Shorten in the preferred Prime Minister stakes but yesterday’s Fairfax-Ipsos showed […]
Winning back trust
When Greg Hunt appointed Gregory Andrews to be our first ‘Threatened Species Commissioner’ in July last year, few people other than Chris Graham at New […]
Political Realities, Leadership Change and why Democracy won
There are those on the left who desperately wanted Tony Abbott to be Prime Minister at the next election. They rightly saw his unpopularity as […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday 4 July 1 Andrew Robb in response to a question about the Coalition’s attitude to the co-sponsored Private Members Bill on same sex marriage […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday June 27 1 Do you ever wonder what happened to the debt crisis? That time when Abbott and Hockey used every negative description they […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday June 6 1 The Prime Minister’s and Minister Dutton’s responses to Senator Hanson Young’s objection to allegedly being spied on in Nauru was appallingly […]
“The Rise and Fall of Australia”
Book Review by John Lord Nick Bryant Is a BBC correspondent and author who often appears on Q&A and The Drum. I made the dreadful […]
A Week is a Long Time in Politics
If ever a week in politics supported a headline it was the week that Gough Whitlam died. In the main the death of this undeniably […]
Tony Abbott Changes Liberal Foreign Policy
“Let’s wait until we’ve got all the facts in before we come to hard and fast conclusions. But obviously it is the clear and settled […]
In the Dark Shadow of Conservative Rule
As a senior Australian and one who has witnessed a variety of social reforms over the past 60 years, today I feel profoundly sad. This […]
Why Clive Palmer may not be Abbott’s karma! A pattern emerges …
Anyone else wondering if there’s a pattern starting here? The Government proposes something. Clive creates BIG HEADLINES by suggesting that he’ll block it. There’s a bit […]
The puppet masters
Before the time of Gough Whitlam, the public service were largely responsible for the formulation and co-ordination of policy and senior public servants made the […]
Back where you came from
Someone gave me some good advice when I was a single woman: when you’re out on a date with a man, take note of how […]
A Conspiracy of Convenience
Much has been written here recently about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the job guarantee, structural deficits, fiscal statements, fiat currency and the like. But that, […]