What Tony Abbott will do for you (Part 1): the age pension
I can’t see the mainstream media’s commitment to telling us who to vote for being relaxed until the election is over and they’ve safely delivered […]
Articles by Michael Taylor
Pauline Hanson and friends
I’ve never paid any attention to anything Pauline Hanson says, but I’m starting to pay some attention to what people say about her. It was […]
Andrew Bolt: more than just the village idiot
I’ve never seen Andrew Bolt as anything but a village idiot. The label, first applied by Mike Carlton a couple of years ago has stuck […]
Mr Abbott’s witch hunt
Tony Abbott has promised to do many things if the LNP win the 2013 election. This promise, now a couple of months old, has been […]
Media consumers have little to feed on
Anyone who read Tory Shepherd’s article The guts of the matter is that we want policy, not politics on news.com’s The Punch this morning would […]
Margo Kingston: building bridges
There is an old movie line I often recall: A life filled with activity suggests a life filled with purpose. I have no hesitation in […]
Making up the news
We all know just how manipulative, dishonest, sensationalist, gutless, unfair and unbalanced the media is in this country. And it seems at time as though […]
In whose opinion?
An old friend, Nick, recently said that what was once news has now been replaced with a journalist’s view on the world. The journalist’s opinion is […]
Oh please, shoot me now!
Anybody who watched – sorry, laboured through the ABC’s QandA shoot me now could not have helped to notice that, despite the multitude of tweets […]
Howard’s Golden Years
Do you remember how good life was under the Howard Government? How we were all made to feel safe from terrorists and boat people? Remember […]
Tony Abbott: At war with the Universe
It’s not unusual for a politician to stand against, rather than for something. John Howard’s dismissal of climate change (until he reckoned there were a […]
Voting for action
In our previous piece, Climate change ‘a lay person’s dilemma’ John Lord provided a logical argument in consideration as to whether to believe or not […]
Was Australia invaded or settled?
Was Australia invaded or settled? This article was first drafted this time last year in response to a passionate debate around Australia Day on whether […]
Andrew Bolt: the globe-trotting weather presenter
Believe in climate change or not, there is no denying that the most vociferous and fanatical arguments come from those kitchen table scientists who do […]
Do some research and you’ll find it’s OK not to be black enough
Aborigines face the unending task of resisting attempts, on the one hand to cut them off from their heritage, and on the other to bury […]