Freedom from religion
Over the last few months, we have heard, and will continue to hear, a great deal about religious freedom and how it is supposedly threatened […]
Articles by Kaye Lee
For Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, life is attack, attack, attack
In the mid-1970s, Malcolm Turnbull, then 21, told future radio broadcaster David Dale that he wanted to be Prime Minister by the time he was […]
The ABCC debacle
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the operation of the ABCC under Nigel Hadgkiss. In April last year, a case brought by Nigel Hadgkiss against […]
As Australian prices rise, Exxon slashes price for Australian gas exported to India
As Malcolm Turnbull tells us that he is talking tough to gas companies in Australia, India just renegotiated a deal to take more of our […]
Perpetual outrage about nothing
There are some in the media who use perpetual outrage as their stock-in-trade but they rarely present a balanced, or even truthful, view. Last month, […]
You call that an energy plan?
When Scott Morrison was challenged on Insiders about not having an energy plan, he indignantly launched into what was obviously a prepared comeback. PROBYN: You […]
The total capitulation of Mealy-Mouthed Malcolm
When Malcolm Turnbull rolled a sitting Prime Minister, he promised a different style of leadership. “The big economic changes that we’re living through here and […]
To those who think the YES campaign is too “in your face”
I know we are supposed to show respect to the NO side in the marriage equality debate but for how long? When Robert Menzies introduced […]
Ideology and idiocy
Yesterday in Question Time, Malcolm Turnbull stood up and lambasted the “sorry tale of Labor mismanagement” of energy policy. He particularly criticised South Australia and […]
Political correctness is not stopping silly people from telling lies
Freedom of speech should not confer the right to tell blatant lies but, time and again, that is what we see happening. That bastion of […]
Attacking the ‘socialist left’ is a hard sell
The Coalition have made their strategy quite clear. They are delving back to the 50s for a reds-under-the-bed scare campaign. Turnbull said Shorten was “thoroughly […]
How many experts does it take to turn on a light bulb?
Despite countless bodies, committees, reviews and an army of bureaucrats, we are still no closer to an energy policy and prices keep rising. In 2005, […]
Empty attack is back
It’s not surprising that the government has decided to target Bill Shorten personally and to run a scare campaign on Labor’s policies rather than pointing […]
The rule of law “is not a smorgasbord to be picked at will”
When newly elected secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sally McManus, defended the right of unions to take unlawful industrial action, there was […]
My generation are a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to political correctness
According to a recent survey commissioned by Australian Seniors Insurance Agency, 86 per cent of people over 50 believed “having to be politically correct all […]