Make love, not war
With Joe Hockey eager to let us know how much we are all spending on those bludging single mothers, I thought it would be worth letting […]
Articles by Kaye Lee
Cutting through the crap
The Coalition want to talk about the past or the future but never the present. Here are a few details from this year’s budget. Net […]
Having a go
It made my heart sing last night to hear Emma Alberici tell Mathias Cormann a few home truths in one of the best interviews I […]
Et tu, Scott?
Considering how smug Scott Morrison is looking lately, it is somewhat ironic that it was Joe Hockey that gifted him his first government “snout in […]
Tony Abbott – a man of principle and conviction?
Tony Abbott’s timeline on paid parental leave 2002 In 2002, Tony Abbott’s hostility to paid parental leave reached a crescendo, when he declared to the […]
Wise words from Tony Windsor
“When I was young I thought South Africa would always be apartheid. I never thought the Berlin Wall would come down. I thought Russia would […]
The sequel to the Little Book of Big Labor Waste
When Jamie Briggs penned The Little Book of Big Labor Waste in the lead up to the last election he really nailed Julia Gillard for […]
Premature congratulation
The Abbott government suffers from a bad case of premature congratulation. We have had a parade of Hockey, Cormann, Frydenberg, Abbott and others telling us […]
Business before science
With the revelation that Tony Abbott made the decision to fund Bjorn Lomberg’s position at UWA, and academics protesting that it tarnishes their reputation, one […]
What do you do when you have made a bad decision?
When what you are doing is not achieving the desired goal, do you stick with it because that’s what you said you were going to […]
You get what you pay for
While their philosophy remains to cut spending and lower taxes, the Abbott government are unlikely to produce an equitable budget. As John Daley of the […]
Is ISIS a threat to national security?
Tony Abbott has repeatedly decried the “apocalyptic death cult” ISIS as a threat to our national security but is that true? Do they present a […]
To tax or not to tax
On August 29 2012 Joe Hockey addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). During his speech he said “business would be right to […]
Are you suffering from PBS?
What is prebudget syndrome (PBS)? Prebudget syndrome (PBS) is a group of symptoms linked to the budget cycle. PBS symptoms occur 4 to 6 weeks […]
It makes no sense
In March 2014, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opposed AGL Energy Limited’s (AGL) proposed acquisition of Macquarie Generation, NSW government-owned power stations which […]