THE REAL CONSPIRACY
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Dealing with this ‘boy’ Prime Minister
At Head of Government level, there is a protocol that enables messages of disapproval to be passed from one leader to another in a way […]
A New World Order or yet another Monumental Blunder?
Can someone tell me just what it is that our eight strike fighters are expected to achieve by joining an international coalition aimed at defeating Islamic […]
It should never have come to this
As fact is sorted from fiction about recent incidents involving members of Australia’s Muslim communities, I cannot but lament that the media is not making […]
The Minister for Lost Opportunities
You have to hand to him. Joe Hockey would have to be the eternal optimist. He says that we are on the threshold of Australia’s […]
Terror alert or political stunt?
There is something quite odd about this latest decision to raise Australia’s terrorist alert level to ‘high’. I can’t see what it is supposed to […]
Time to come clean, Tony
As a matter of public interest it is time for Tony Abbott to tell us whether or not he was holding dual citizenship when he […]
Just what is this ‘Team Australia’?
Once again, it seems, the Liberal party spin doctors are trying to cloud our minds and muddy the waters with yet another two or three […]
Another Day, Another Blunder
You can smell an air of desperation in the ranks of the Coalition government at the moment. Each week, it seems, we have a rich […]
The Decline and Fall of ‘Team Australia’
As much as I struggled to agree with anything John Howard said or did when he was Prime Minister, there is one thing I had […]
Multiple Ministers Scoring ‘Own Goals’
Over the past week or so we have witnessed examples of possibly the most mistake prone bunch of ministerial amateurs we have seen in the […]
Could it get any worse?
We have been given the impression by certain members of the media recently that Tony Abbott is being hailed as some sort of world leader […]
Is there really such a thing as national debt?
In a recent article by Warwick Smith in The Guardian, a group of economists refuted three of the government’s claims, namely that there was a […]
Prime Minister, Why haven’t you called Putin?
Tony Abbott you are weak. When interviewed by Fran Kelly on ‘Insiders’ this morning you were asked if you had called Vladimir Putin. You said […]
In the Dark Shadow of Conservative Rule
As a senior Australian and one who has witnessed a variety of social reforms over the past 60 years, today I feel profoundly sad. This […]