Your vote might just be worth something after all
News.com.au have published an excellent and timely article, Federal Election promises, cuts and what they mean for you by Sarah Michael, which briefly examines Kevin […]
Articles by Michael Taylor
Since when did we become a greedy nation?
Watching QandA last night I was struck dumb when a young female member of the audience pounced on Bill Shorten for the government not matching […]
Wapping: what can we learn from it?
While reading yesterday’s article Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal Party I was struck by the following: Rupert Murdoch has shown a total disdain for governments […]
Feigned Love
Tony Abbott has declared fixing Australia’s greatest “national failure”, dire Indigenous disadvantage, will be one of his personal priorities if he wins office. Personally, I […]
Conduct unbecoming?
By now everybody would have seen the widely condemned front page (above) of The Daily Telegraph, but did anybody read the accompanying editorial rubbish? I […]
It’s official: Joe Hockey has lost the plot!
With the announcement that the Reserve Bank is tipped to cut rates today, Joe Hockey has pounced: Mr Hockey says the expected cut shows Labor […]
A letter to Tony Abbott: “Not everybody dies at sea”
Dear Tony Abbott, Unless you have no respect for human life, especially for those who attempt to escape from their miserable existence to take ‘illegal’ […]
Keep lying, Tony Abbott
The hypocrisy of the Abbott adulators is apparent in their fervour to go on and on about a single lie that wasn’t a lie whilst […]
Some reasons why the Libs don’t want you to vote for the Greens
If anybody wants to know what the Coalition plan to do in Government then they need look no further than the Coalition Speakers notes 1 […]
The growing irrelevance of the Murdoch media
For a number of decades the Murdoch media have enjoyed an unbridled run as the major source for news, information and opinion in this country. […]
What was Kevin Rudd thinking?
Opinion. There can only be one of two reasons behind Kevin Rudd’s decision to challenge for the ALP leadership. Some saw it as this: to […]
It could only happen in America. Or could it?
Six months out from both the US and Australian elections the polls were adamant that the incumbent administrations were doomed. At home, Tony Abbott was […]
ANDEV: The Tony Abbott policy announcement when you don’t have a policy announcement
Mining companies are one of the biggest Liberal party donors. Is it sheer coincidence that some of Abbott’s known policies reflect what Gina Rinehart and […]
Is there a media blackout on Labor’s achievements?
There were a couple of good speeches in Parliament today. One was the valedictory speech by the former speaker Harry Jenkins during which he called […]
The NBN: Worth voting for
We’ve heard every argument for and against the National Broadband Network (NBN) from the moment it was launched. It’s fairly blatant that those who oppose […]