Just remember – we’re not independent and we’re all idiots
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of taking a class called “Oral English” which was one hour a week and in it Year […]
Articles by Rossleigh
Being hypocritical is the new black
“Tony Abbott’s election victory give us the chance to push for the repeal of laws stifling our right to free speech, which came under such […]
The Elephant in the Room
Every now and then, I remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes, where it takes a child to point out what everyone should be […]
The Cassandra Effect, Abbott and Boiling a Frog. Dr Who?
I step out of the phone box. I look around. Picking up a paper, I see the date September 16th, 2009. Either the time travel […]
An Abbott and two Bishops walk into a Party
“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply […]
Why I don’t write Satire
Ok, the other day someone asked me why I don’t seem to write as much satire anymore. There’s too much competition, I explained. But I […]
Australia is Nobody’s Business
From today, I declare that Australia is under new management and that Australia is once again open for new business,” Tony Abbott “All models are wrong; […]
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we […]
Whose fault is it?
I once observed that it’d benefit a lot of organizations if someone was paid to take the blame when things go wrong. “We’ve overestimated/underestimated/overspent/missed the […]
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
1993 – Hewson has lost the unlosable election. He had released the most detailed policy, outlining his plans for a GST, welfare reform, cutbacks to […]
Usually, they wait till you’ve signed the contract before revealing the fine print!
Who else received a Contract from Tony Abbott? Just wondering, because I misplaced mine and I’ve been searching for it on the internet, and I […]
Let’s All Buy Fairfax Shares and Stop publishing Amanda Vanstone
I always try to consider the possibility that I may be wrong. In 1975, I was one of the few students to say that Malcolm […]
Sick of hearing about those bloody boat people – Scott Morrison has the answer!
“Australians may never know how many asylum-seeker boats arrive under a Coalition government, with opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison refusing to release details about boat […]
Literally doesn’t mean literally anymore, and the Conservatives have been Radicals since the 80s
The word ‘literally’ has been redefined in the Oxford English Dictionary – to include what is widely accepted as the ‘wrong’ definition.The dictionary has altered their […]
People told me to read between the lines, but I didn’t see anything written there!
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition policy to pay long-term unemployed young people who find a job up to $15,500 is “a sensible investment”. […]