Who’s running this show?
There is a disturbing trend emerging of government ministers seemingly having no idea what their staff are doing. Bridget McKenzie apparently doesn’t know which staffer […]
Articles by Kaye Lee
Remember when Tony Abbott made himself Minister for Women?
Remember when Tony Abbott was elected on a promise of 6 months’ worth of replacement wages for maternity leave to encourage “women of calibre” to […]
The world knows Scott Morrison is a liar. Now Australians need to wake up
Australia isn’t known as the Colossal Fossil for no reason – we win the award on a regular basis due to our determined efforts to […]
If anyone should go, it should be Joel Fitzgibbon
As Labor goes through yet another bout of self-destructive leadership undermining and internal dissent, and a shadow cabinet reshuffle is leaked to the press ahead […]
Tin pot dictators, timid sycophants, and corporate schills – is that the best we can do?
“There is,” said an Italian philosopher, “nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to […]
Protecting our heritage and our future from Morrison’s band of marauders
As Scott Morrison plays to a Queensland audience to launch his government’s supposed “gas led recovery”, absent is any mention of climate change, the environment, […]
Seven years later…
The Liberal Party have a very handy page that lists their achievements over the last 7 years, 4 months and 11 days (not that I’m […]
Trust Linda Reynolds? Sure can’t
Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds was one of the first to speak up about the bullying that occurred during Scott Morrison’s rise to the top job. […]
Risk avoidance vs disaster response – how the Coalition creates crises
Whether we are talking about climate change, bushfire management, poverty, inequality, employment, health, education, Indigenous disadvantage, or the myriad other responsibilities of government, the Coalition […]
Rachel Maddow on the daily madness
Let’s hear it for the ‘leader’ of the free world. And just to recap… It’s exhausting but we must keep speaking out until we get […]
Booty call
One of my close friends was a flight attendant. I was staying at her place when, late one night, a high-profile sports celebrity rang to […]
Known problems
Spokesmodel Christian Porter has been all over the airwaves announcing the government’s latest…ummm…announcement, which is that they want everyone else to sort out the “known […]
Never ask advice from someone unless you are sure they will tell you what you want to hear
One only has to look at who our government employs to advise them to get an understanding of how little they actually want advice. Appointing […]
Scotty’s shirtfronting sophistry
The hypocrisy of ScottyFromMarketing’s hairy-chested approach to an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and China’s response was highlighted this week when Border Force Tsar […]
We cannot afford to flout the grave risk posed by climate change and a government who wants to “do us slowly”
According to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, who, for some reason, have taken over from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the […]