What Malcolm Turnbull used to think about asylum seekers
In June 2005, Malcolm Turnbull rose to speak in parliament on the Migration Amendment (Detention Arrangements) Bill 2005. Hundreds of my constituents, since I announced […]
Articles by Kaye Lee
We have a right to know
On Sunday, the Guardian reported that Médecins Sans Frontières has been denied access to asylum seekers and refugees on Manus Island in order to assess […]
Relying on the poor to fix the budget is not much of a plan
Between the May budget and the actual outcome for the 2017-18 financial year less than two months later, “personal benefits expense”, read welfare spending, fell […]
Christian dominionism in Australia
When the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils made a submission to a government inquiry suggesting that Muslims should enjoy “legal pluralism” by allowing moderate forms […]
Forget ‘are we there yet’ – let me outta here!
As parliament and political commentary are consumed by the citizenship debacle and the same-sex marriage legislation, the country lurches along with no clear direction on […]
Someone told me…
The leader of One Nation in Queensland, Steve Dickson, has been forced to apologise over comments he made about the Safe Schools program in which […]
Australian values, immigration and employment
Isn’t it ironic that we are lectured to about Australian values by a government full of migrants and their immediate descendants. That is the reality […]
Gaslighting arseholes – the real enemy of the people
On a recent article titled The price of procrastination, AIMN contributor Peter made the following observation: Turnbull is a fucking lying disgusting and pathetic mother […]
The price of procrastination
Speaking about the parlous state of politics in this country, anti-corruption campaigner Tony Fitzgerald wrote that “ethics, tolerance and civility are intrinsic elements of democratic […]
“The reality is the rule of law is required to be followed by all Australians otherwise we’ll have chaos”
Why is it that every time the Coalition are caught out it is a witch hunt? Kelly O’Dwyer, in a very ordinary and predictable display […]
The systematic silencing of the people’s advocates
Politicians spend a lot of their time listening to lobbyists with vested interests. The general population also have some representatives who try valiantly to make […]
The serial misuse and abuse of state power
We could fix many of this country’s problems, or at least go a long way towards it, if it was not for the serial misuse […]
In an astonishing display of cognitive dissonance, Matt Canavan accuses environmental activists and traditional owners of “abusing our judicial system to further a political agenda”
Matt Canavan, aka the Minister for Adani, has hit the ground running after the courts decided his Mum’s application for him to have Italian citizenship […]
Cognitive dissonance, collective dishonesty, corrupt dealings or complete dumbness
I am firmly convinced that the entire Coalition suffers from cognitive dissonance. Barnaby Joyce, in an opinion piece for a Tamworth newspaper bemoaning the “malicious […]
Letting Craig Kelly dictate energy policy is as stupid as letting Tony Abbott destroy the NBN
The head of the misnamed Coalition backbench environment committee, Craig Kelly, has been all over the media with ever more strident calls to stop all […]