The Game is Rigged
A short video by Robert Reich lasting just 2 minutes 35 seconds landed in my news feed on Facebook a few days ago. For all […]
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Election 2016: Some Economic Myth-Busters
A Happy New Year to everyone and in case you have forgotten, 2016 is an election year. Regardless of one’s personal preference for a conservative […]
Six Pillars of Wisdom
Have you picked up on the government’s latest three word slogan, “paid with savings” yet? Each new initiative announced recently, where money is involved, […]
Social Welfare: Fact and Fiction
One of the more common complaints made by conservative contributors to social media debates, relates to the issue of welfare recipients, i.e., who is getting […]
A Great Big Failure
Oh boy, Scott Morrison. If you thought your post MYEFO press conference was convincing, you are in trouble. You sounded like you were reading from […]
Our Government: Traitors to their own people
For the twelve months or so that I have been writing articles advocating the benefits that would come if our government implemented a Modern Monetary […]
Is Full Employment also on the Table, Malcolm?
We keep hearing from the government that everything is ‘on the table’ when it comes to tax and other reforms. Really! Does that include a […]
Australia: An Impoverished Nation
The year 2015 will likely be remembered as a watershed for the Liberal Party having surrendered what they perceived as the high moral ground of […]
How to Undermine our Future Well-being
While the Australian economy continues sliding towards recession, the mainstream media seems more interested in focusing its attention on the latest popularity contest between Malcolm […]
Everybody Loves Malcolm, but…
Remember all that nonsense about debt and deficit disasters, budget emergencies and how the Liberals were the only ones capable of managing the economy? What […]
Printing Money
Adair Turner is a British Lord as well as a businessman and academic. He is, according to Wikipedia, a member of the UK’s Financial Policy […]
Morrison’s Approaching Waterloo
It may be early days but Joe Hockey’s second and final attempt to bring down a credible budget appears to be unravelling already. Even on […]
Yes Paul, Religious Instruction is Child Abuse
Those who watched Q&A on Monday night might have been taken aback by US Biologist and Ecologist Dr Paul Ehrlich’s claim that religious instruction is child […]
Abbott another Right Wing Nutter
There’s nothing quite as pathetic as watching a former Australian prime minister trying to redress a less than stellar political career. That Tony Abbott would […]
Malcolm Fears neither Debt nor the Conservatives.
What a monumental turn around. In a newspaper interview this week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off the Abbott-Hockey debt and deficit rhetoric and […]