Someone has well and truly lost the plot
That fine custodian of moral virtue, Piers Ackerman, is mostly known for his frothing-at-the-mouth appearances on ABC Insiders most Sunday mornings and as a journalist […]
Politics
Don’t write crap
My observations of both the mainstream and independent media over this past week show just how far removed one is from the other. Stories that […]
An Open Letter to the Mainstream Media
Dear Mainstream Media, I know we haven’t exactly got along in the past, but I’m just writing to let you know the status of our […]
An invitation to Tony Abbott
Three months out from the federal election Tony Abbott must be very frustrated. He has only three months to tell us what he will do […]
Feel free to speak about whatever I want you to
Part A In an address to the IPA titled “Freedom Wars”, Tony Abbott declared that it is his intention to repeal s18C of the Racial […]
Tony Abbott: the ‘million dollar’ man
It has been widely reported that in the last 12 months Tony Abbott has claimed more than one million dollars in expenses. Nobody from the […]
Witnesses wanted
These are serious allegations. A number of independent journalists have been approached by a source for help in making public an incident they witnessed in […]
The case for keeping Julia Gillard
“So why am I the last columnist to give them a fighting chance? Well, Julia Gillard has never been given a fair go” (Robert Macklin). […]
Labor Bashing
It’s surely not just me who has noticed the mainstream media losing their shit this week. It’s like the very sight of Kevin Rudd is […]
The Lying Christopher Pyne
Did anybody watch the 7:30 Report last night? If not, you wouldn’t have known that Christopher Pyne told a bold-faced lie about Julia Gillard and […]
Why Labor must not win the 2013 election
In a nutshell, we have a Government who have hoisted us to the top of the international economic tree; who have delivered policies that will […]
The LNP – The party who cried wolf
We’ve all heard the fable of The boy who cried wolf: There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the […]
Haters want to hate
It’s clear Australian voters aren’t rational, but do they have to be so blatantly mindless as well? When I say voters, I’m currently referring in […]
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 […]