Visits of Justice: Stella Assange’s Plea to Australia
It certainly got the tongues wagging, the keyboards pressed, and the intellectually dead aroused – at least for a time. Given how many of those […]
Politics
John Howard wrecked Aged Care for all Australians
There is a definite turning point in the quality and the humanity of Australia’s care for the elderly. The Aged Care Bill 1997 (Cth) was introduced as […]
Rogue Consultants: PwC, Tax Evasion and Getting Clients
Things are not looking up at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a global professional services firm piratically free in sharing confidential tax information gathered from government clients. Then […]
The Opposition – full of grumps and fantasists
If you were exposed to the last conservative government in Australia, you have just about seen it all. It was like a trip back in […]
Do We Really Need Twitter ?
Stan Grant has made it known that he is quitting ABC television Program Q&A. In a heartfelt piece published by the ABC he said that “On […]
Fears of Abandonment: Australia, Biden and Cancelling the Quad Visit
Much needless fuss has been generated by President Joe Biden’s cancellation of his visit to Australia for the Quad meeting, a now regular gathering of […]
Dan Andrews – and Murdoch crying wolf
Rupert Murdoch has done incalculable harm to the democratic experiment throughout the AUKUS nations and beyond. In Victoria, his propaganda campaigns have made him the […]
30 pieces of social conscience
While Opposition Leader Peter Dutton didn’t have a wonderful budget week by all accounts, it must have given him some joy to see the government […]
Budget 2023: Let the Responsible Economic and Strategic Mentoring Continue
By Denis Bright Supportive coverage by the Illawarra Mercury (1 May 2023) of the Federal Treasurer’s forthcoming budget preparations were already part of a groundswell […]
Dark Money funding Weaponised Unreality
Billionaires fund bodies with excellent PR strategies to ensure they achieve their goals. Amongst the strategies, “astroturf” organisations use good-sounding names to confuse us in […]
The flood boat and the helicopter
There is an old joke about the Pentecostal Christian that arrives at the ‘pearly gates’ after drowning in a flood while telling anyone that would […]
Scott Morrison and Australia’s Lobby Complex
The former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been somewhat of an absentee in the Federal seat of Cook. Since losing the May 2022 election, […]
Are Nazis running Victoria?
Currently the Neo Nazis who performed their Hitler salutes on Parliament House steps in Melbourne six weeks ago are effectively instructing Victoria Police which events […]
The RBA’s Interest Rate Call: From Bland Headlines to a Burst of Friendly Fire from Critical Journalism
By Denis Bright It is no consolation to mortgagees that the eleventh interest rate increase from the RBA in a year still leaves Australians with […]
Submarines and Parking Tickets, and High Farce in the ‘No’ campaign
A waft of V05 and humbug hung in the air when the tinnitus in a trouser suit that is Michaelia Cash was handed the drivel […]