Dear Mr Abbott, unlike God, the people are not infinitely forgiving
“Good government starts today” promised Prime Minister Tony Abbott, fresh from his party’s first failed spill motion this morning in which 39 members of his […]
Articles by Dr Jennifer Wilson
The Credlin thing
I don’t get all this Murdoch-inspired hoo haa about Peta Credlin, the Prime Minister’s embattled Chief of Staff. Ms Credlin has been in the spotlight […]
Cruelty is the worst policy
In general, it’s always seemed to me that when governments or individuals take an increasingly hard, harsh and inhumane stand on an issue it’s a […]
And now Morrison (yes, him again) denies us our history
Author Peter FitzSimons recently completed a documentary on the history of race riots in Australia. The first episode of “The Great Australian Race Riot” aired on […]
It’s my prerogative: Morrison’s last despotic act as Immigration Minister
One of the last despotic acts of former Immigration Minister Scott Morrison was to threaten to revoke the power of Moreland City Council Mayor, Meghan […]
Scott Morrison now seeks sole authority over citizenship decisions
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection, under the authority of Minister Scott Morrison, is in the process of seeking amendments to the Australian Citizenship […]
Morrison’s powers: nobody will know who he sends back to be killed
Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Scott Morrison, is the only minister who is not answerable to anyone for his decisions, with the exception of […]
Casualties of “Border Protection”
It ought not to surprise anyone that naval personnel are vulnerable to post traumatic stress disorder as a consequence of implementing the ALP and LNP […]
Getting rid of dysfunctional Prime Ministers
Former Liberal Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett this morning dumped big time on the federal LNP, claiming that dislike for Prime Minister Tony Abbott is […]
When the PM normalises lying
“It is an absolute principle of democracy that governments should not and must not say one thing before an election and do the opposite afterwards. […]
Everything is politics
In this piece on The Drum today titled “Labor misreads the politics of Ebola,” Paula Matthewson argues that the Opposition has misjudged its stance on the […]
When your dad is not the PM
Frances Abbott, 24 year-old daughter of Prime Minister Tony Abbott, made news a couple of weeks ago when it emerged she’d been offered a $60,000 […]
No ‘love’ in the Abbott Government’s ‘tough’
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have taken to describing their budgetary cruelty as an act of “tough love” for which we may […]
The Budget: All cruelty springs from weakness
It can’t be denied any longer, conservatives really do believe they have no responsibility to the vulnerable, and it is perfectly acceptable to the […]
Abbott uses society’s vulnerable as means to an ideological end
It seems to me that it’s a core conservative tradition to use the most vulnerable people in society as a means to an ideological end. There […]