Forget gender and ethnicity, our parliament isn’t even representative of our vote
In the last federal House of Representatives election, the Coalition collectively got 42.04% of the first preference vote, Labor got 34.73% and the Greens got […]
Articles by Kaye Lee
Coalition unveils its emissions reduction strategy – increase the population
Anyone who has followed the toxic climate change debate over the last decade must be questioning their sanity after the Coalition’s media blitz announcing their […]
Coalition women must stop enabling their misogynistic sexist male colleagues
Back in 2014, a confident Julie Bishop, buoyed by a substantive win at the 2013 election, took to the lectern at the National Press Club […]
Better economic managers? You gotta be shitting me
According to just about every journalist, commentator, and Liberal/National politician, the Coalition are better economic managers. Crap. Pretty much every problem we have can be […]
Gifts bestowed by the ruling elite
From the second the Coalition formed government, they have been using their position to shower largesse on themselves, their friends and donors. The tone was […]
Tough guy Morrison only attacks the vulnerable
As Scott Morrison ramps up his new image as our strong protector, the only one with the “mettle” to save us from the evil that […]
The staggering cost of defending incompetence
When it was revealed last year that taxpayers had shelled out more than $825 million on lawyers in 2016-17, Attorney-General Christian Porter said he was […]
Politicians create problems rather than solve them
Whilst we all bemoan the greed and power of corporations and the damage that the relentless pursuit of profit can cause, or the division that […]
Some interesting snippets from Senate Estimates
A few observations from Monday’s Senate Estimates hearings: Ministers Michaelia Cash and Michael Keenan both declined two requests from the AFP to be interviewed and […]
This government has never been about governing in the best interests of the country
The last five years of government in this country have been characterised by the greatest waste of time and money in our history, a debasing […]
Claiming credit
It’s one thing for the Coalition to blame Labor and the Greens for everything – that’s just politics, as ProMo would say – but it’s […]
There are better ways to “stop the boats” than by destroying people’s lives
Labor finally found enough courage to actually remember we are dealing with people when we talk about the folk living in Hotel California (you can […]
The government’s constant negativity is draining and divisive
There have always been incidents of nepotism, rorting, broken promises, moral failures, poor decisions, and even straight out lies, in politics. So why does it […]
No matter how much you give the rich, they will always want more
It seems astonishing that, in a country where one in eight adults and more than one in six children are living in poverty, and many […]
Blackouts, nana tax, and terrorism – or climate change, tax reform, and population policy? It’s all about Labor
Broadly speaking, the coming federal election seems to be coalescing around three main issues. Young people particularly see climate change as the defining issue. They […]