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 […]
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A Wicked Problem. A Wicked Solution?
When Kevin Rudd announced Labor’s new asylum seeker policy yesterday, my knee-jerk reaction was to be very concerned. Kevin Rudd and his Labor colleagues obviously […]
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. […]
House of cards
Dear Tony Abbott, You probably get a lot of letters from both admirers and those seeking to criticise every facet of your existence. I am […]
Too little too late
The switch has been flicked. Extraordinary. I have seen more reporting of government policy in mainstream press over the last week than I saw in […]
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 […]
An Open Letter to the Australian Financial Review
To the Australian Financial Review I wanted to make you aware of the behavior of one of your columnists which is damaging your brand. I […]
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 […]
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 […]
The mainstream media has gone stark raving mad
It’s official. The mainstream media has gone stark raving mad. This article was published in the Age today: For the sake of the nation, Ms […]
Why are turkeys voting for Christmas?
Why are turkeys voting for Christmas? When I say voting, I mean revealing to Newspoll their intention to vote for Abbott. And when I say […]
Do try to keep up, Tony
From today’s South Coast Register in their thrilling article Abbott show rolls into town we read these wise words from Tony himself: “Well, in the […]