An open letter to members of the Parliamentary Labor Party
To all parliamentary members, As a member of the Labor party, I am pleading with you, the federal parliamentary members, to stop what you are […]
Articles by John Kelly
Covid exposes the reality of fake debt
When treasurer Josh Frydenberg abandoned the Tony Abbott mantra that “you can’t fix the economy unless you fix the budget,” it was clear that something […]
Trump’s Enigmatic Legacy
Unsurprisingly, there are those here in Australia who are mourning the departure of this enigma of American politics. Why? Trump was neither a leader or […]
A Triumph Of Leadership
For the past 5 months or so, I have been engaged in debates on Facebook on the subject of Victoria’s second COVID-19 wave. Not surprisingly, […]
A letter to Michael Sukkar from a Deakin constituent
Dear Michael I saw you on the 9 news last Saturday evening telling us the $60 billion overestimate, if used to help people excluded from […]
Aussie Politics in 2022
As one speculates on the deteriorating trajectory of the Australian economy under the stranglehold of COVID-19, it’s not hard to see the gradual demise of […]
Is Morrison’s Pink-Batts Moment Coming?
Will the federal JobKeeper Allowance become Scott Morrison’s pink-batts/school-halls’ experience? It’s starting to look that way, even at this early stage. Just to recap, when […]
The Recession we are going to have!
Now we will see them in full bloom. No, not my iceberg roses, although they look spectacular at the moment. No, now we are seeing […]
The Trickle-up Conspiracy
Henry Johnston’s article, NO WE CAN’T (AIMN, 13/02/2020) begins “Try as I might, I cannot pinpoint the exact moment or instance, when the world’s conservative […]
Mother Nature is Pushing Back
If there is a positive to draw from what is happening to us this Australian summer, it is that for climate deniers, this is, thus […]
Is Europe drifting towards another war?
There is a saying in France that the unskilled worker is either on strike or on holidays. It’s not true; it’s an idiom that has […]
Frydenberg and Steel-Plated Boots
The final results are in for the fiscal year 2018/19. The government’s May Budget prediction of a $4 billion deficit has come in officially at […]
Remember Hiroshima
Today, Tuesday, 6th August 2019 is the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The following is a detailed account of what happened that […]
Perhaps it’s the better result in the long run
I hate saying it, but perhaps it was an election Labor should consider themselves fortunate to have lost. And perhaps they should seriously consider not […]
Paying Down Debt
At one stage during the election campaign, either Scott Morrison or Josh Frydenberg hinted at their intention to begin paying down the national debt if […]