Operation Sovereign Borders. Doubly Disillusioned.
Over the past several years Tony Abbott has electioneered on two platforms: that climate change is crap and that asylum seekers arriving by boats are […]
Articles by Carol Taylor
What happened when asylum seekers were sent back to Indonesia: Tony Abbott’s own words
In mid-October 2009, 78 Tamil asylum seekers were intercepted en route to Australia and taken on board the Oceanic Viking. They were then taken to […]
Tony’s women
Jacqueline Maley writes: Prime Minister-elect, we’ve been through this! We’ve talked about it time and time again and we thought it was resolved. After you […]
Australia Cannot Afford the Coalition
This isn’t an article about economics. This is an article about something far more precious: Culture. Australia is losing the best parts of itself and […]
Coalition Treachery Cannot Stand
Opinion: As reported recently in various news outlets, including The Age and recounted here at The AIMN by Rossleigh, it is the Coalition’s intention to […]
An Open Letter to Fairfax Media Limited
To whom it may concern, A great deal has been said about the media in Australia of late, especially with regard to political coverage. Most […]
And The Winner Is …
This is emphatically not an election campaign about policy. Labor’s are mostly already in place and the Coalition doesn’t have any “big ticket” policies that […]
Careless whispers nothing to dance about
In my years of being old enough to know what an election campaign is, I cannot recall one so inundated with media tales of what […]
Joe Hockey Manages to Smear Himself
The Courier Mail today ran a story revealing that would-be Treasurer Joe Hockey failed to declare a family interest for most of the duration of […]
Abbott loves Murdoch: a reminder
Within hours of my post “Murdoch hates Rudd: a reminder”, where I predicted that the Murdoch media would turn even more feral towards the Government as […]
Murdoch hates Rudd: a reminder
The Fairfax media and the social media have seized on the ‘rumour’ that Murdoch wants to wipe away Kevin Rudd’s chance of electoral success, in […]
Black Swans and Narratives
We’re natural story making machines. We like to give our universe a sense of order and reason, so when something happens, we like to create […]
Six of the best
We are at that moment in the election cycle (and given that we have a Labor Government, much to the consternation of a compliant right-wing […]
So you think Tony Abbott’s going to lead you to the promised land? Think again!
There are some opinions of we ordinary folk that just don’t find their way onto the pages of the mainstream media. Need I tell you […]
So you’re thinking of voting for Tony Abbott? Think again!
One of the more difficult tasks of being writer is actually doing the writing. You know what to say but you can’t put it together with […]