This is Democracy
500 BCE, Athens This is Democracy. Each year, 500 names are randomly drawn afresh from the pool of eligible voters. These 500 citizens will serve […]
Politics
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 […]
The government that doesn’t want to govern
On 1 October, the Affordable Health Care Act comes into force in the United States. It has split the US down the middle – by […]
An Open Letter to Journalists at News Ltd
Dear News Ltd Journalists, I’m writing you this letter on behalf of all Australians. That includes everyone who can vote in the upcoming election, as […]
Talking about my generation
I was thinking the other day about my generation, or the people I come into contact with from my generation, and how little they care […]
NBN: Redefining Possible
There’s been a lot of noise in certain corners of the media about Rupert Morlock Murdoch and his opposition to the NBN in Australia, which […]
Worse than disrespect
On the face of it, Joe Hockey’s statement that talking about things like “costings” in this election campaign will bore everyone to death seems like […]
Wapping: what can we learn from it?
While reading yesterday’s article Rupert Murdoch and the Liberal Party I was struck by the following: Rupert Murdoch has shown a total disdain for governments […]
Something is missing
There’s something missing from this election campaign. It’s not missing in my mind, but it seems to be missing from 95% of the political coverage […]
Conduct unbecoming?
By now everybody would have seen the widely condemned front page (above) of The Daily Telegraph, but did anybody read the accompanying editorial rubbish? I […]
It’s official: Joe Hockey has lost the plot!
With the announcement that the Reserve Bank is tipped to cut rates today, Joe Hockey has pounced: Mr Hockey says the expected cut shows Labor […]
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 […]