A letter to Tony Abbott: “Not everybody dies at sea”
Dear Tony Abbott, Unless you have no respect for human life, especially for those who attempt to escape from their miserable existence to take ‘illegal’ […]
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An easy life
How easy my life would be if I were a Greens supporter. I’m not saying this in a sarcastic way. I’m deadly honest. Life would […]
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 […]
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 Abbott in the Lodge: “NEVER” (Part four)
But what if Tony Abbott is often touted as being the most effective opposition leader this country has ever had. What criteria people use to […]
An Abbott in the Lodge – “NEVER”
By John Lord and Michael Taylor Part One David Marr’s recent quarterly essay “Political Animal” (now a book) gives an engrossing, even gripping insight into […]
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 […]