Why is there so much anger?
By Ad astra No matter when we listen to the news, watch TV, or browse social media, the pervading emotion in so many items is […]
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War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies
By Dr Strobe Driver Introduction As difficult as it is to write on such a recent event in a clinical way, due to the carnage […]
A Morbid Fear of Intelligence
By Ross Sharp July 13, 2016, ABC’s “7.30 Report” begins. An interview with Wyatt Roy, the youngest person ever to be elected to Federal Parliament, and […]
Census 2016 … A Seismic Secular Shift
By Brian Morris When a leading betting agency makes a ground-breaking move to lay odds on the upcoming census you know something is about to […]
Mr Turnbull, where are your verbs?
By Ad astra It was one of The Political Sword’s regular contributors, Casablanca, who drew my attention to the absence of a verb in the […]
In a nutshell, Australians are becoming poorer
By Arthur Plottier This week we have in the news the ‘The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey’ (the HILDA report) and it […]
The election in numbers
By Ken Wolff We know the Liberals lost 13 seats, or in other words Labor gained 13 seats, with one seat, Herbert, still in the […]
The August Census – Much Ado about Nothing
By Janine Gebert The Census will happen next month, August 9. Given many of us still feel blistered by the anthems of self-interest surrounding the […]
The Liberals are dreaming
By Ken Wolff On Sunday morning 10 July, before Shorten conceded defeat in the election, Arthur Sinodinos appeared on the ABC’s Insiders. He claimed the […]
Analysis of the world’s 500 largest companies puts a spotlight on emissions
By Dr Anthony Horton A recent report on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions performance of the world’s largest 500 companies between 2010 and 2015 is […]
An open letter to Malcolm Turnbull
Dear Mr Turnbull, You may believe that you have won, in some fashion, to keep being the government of the day. You may believe that […]
I’m a carer, but who cares?
Have you ever tried dealing with Centrelink? Don’t bother, you might as well be dealing with the Knights Templar or a secret society. I have […]
If you can’t see the bruises . . .
“My thoughts on domestic violence – as a survivor”, by Tracie Aylmer. When Steve Price delivered his “hysterical” comment last night on QandA, I wasn’t […]
Always someone else to blame
By David Tyler It was Getup; it was Labor’s lies about Medicare. It was the super changes. It was the electorate getting it wrong. It […]
How has it come to this?
By Ad astra The MSM and blog sites abound with critiques of the election and tentative predictions of the political outcomes. So why bother writing […]