Is Bill the ALP’s Squishy Version of Tony?
Is Bill the ALP’s squishy version of Tony, and if so, what is Malcolm? Paul G. Dellit offers a candid answer. My partner said I […]
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Back to the Seventies . . . Remember Social Security?
Do you remember the days when better systems were in place to help the unemployed? Loz Lawrey reflects on those better days, and where the […]
If I were Bill Shorten – on healthcare
This is the first in a series on policy by respected blogger Ad astra; policy that might improve this nation’s situation, policy that Bill Shorten […]
Mining the data on child sex abuse
Is Tony Abbott trying to use an ill-informed myth about the link between metadata and child sex abuse in the hope that the Opposition, the […]
Dinner Time Science and Vegetarians
Getting kids to eat at dinner time can often be a struggle. Matt Rae and his partner found that sometimes it’s just a matter of […]
Angry Abbott
Tony Abbott is rattled, and predictably is reacting by throwing punches in his ‘whirling dervisher’ fashion. Anyone who upsets him is a target, writes respected […]
Are the TPP and TiSA the beginning of the globalisation of health care?
“It’s hard not feel that we are being attacked at from all angles with corporations eying off developing and developed countries public health services for […]
Australia and public safety
Domestic Violence According to the most recent National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report, there have been more than 6,200 homicides in Australia since data […]
Fire: what have we learned from the devastation?
Some of the lessons learned from decades of studying major fires have been learned, and then forgotten, in a drive to simplify the message to […]
The government you have when you don’t have a government
Is anybody still listening to Tony Abbott? Jennifer Wilson doubts it very much, and with good reason. I woke up this morning thinking that I […]
Cruel and unnecessary deaths
Last year 630 Australians died as a result of Hepatitis C. More will die, reports Graham Osborne, while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee rejects calls […]
Australia’s core beliefs – where are they now?
What happened to a ‘fair go’ in this country? It has long gone, writes Jack Gleeson. So who is to blame? Above all else, Australians […]
Abbott’s future: lose-lose
No matter what the outcome of Tuesday’s leadership spill, Tony Abbott is a damaged man writes Jennifer Wilson. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, former Oxford boxing […]
How to use women to get you out of the deep excrement other women got you into
Are voters are so gullible as to be swayed by Tony Abbott wheeling out his wife in his time of political need, while tucking away […]
Joe Hockey is either a hypocrite or incompetent, or maybe both
Today’s interest rate cut have – as cuts do – no doubt been welcomed by Australians weighed down with a mortgage, but one prominent and […]