Why I vote Labor
I first wrote this popular post mid 2012, but with the election this year I took the liberty of updating it and reinforcing why I […]
Politics
An Open Letter to Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd
Dear Julia and Kevin, Sorry to address you both informally by your first names, but I’m assuming I’d start off on the wrong foot if […]
News Limited and self-regulation
News Limited’s tawdry campaign proves Conroy’s point. After Rupert Murdoch’s chickens came home to roost spectacularly in the UK, his emus are scuttling about in […]
Campbell Newman: Tony Abbott’s “mini me”
Why is it that conservatives can never learn from their mistakes, only repeat them? With Campbell Newman’s latest announcements, on privatising health and educational services, […]
What Tony Abbott will do for you (Part 1): the age pension
I can’t see the mainstream media’s commitment to telling us who to vote for being relaxed until the election is over and they’ve safely delivered […]
Pauline Hanson and friends
I’ve never paid any attention to anything Pauline Hanson says, but I’m starting to pay some attention to what people say about her. It was […]
Julia Gillard has nothing to lose
The Labor party has everything to lose. Come September, not only could they lose the Federal election, but also many of the hard fought progressive […]
Andrew Bolt: more than just the village idiot
I’ve never seen Andrew Bolt as anything but a village idiot. The label, first applied by Mike Carlton a couple of years ago has stuck […]
Mr Abbott’s witch hunt
Tony Abbott has promised to do many things if the LNP win the 2013 election. This promise, now a couple of months old, has been […]
Opinion Poll Opinion
I know the mainstream media is only interested in polls owned by Rupert and any other opinion poll, however obscure, they can dredge up that […]
Self-censorship the best way to go
Yesterday I decided to remove my story Media bias threatens democracy. The reason is quite simple: most of the comments below the story were also […]
What Julia Gillard is up against (continued)
This post is another fabulous guest post by Kay Rollison, my mother. I’m following up on Victoria’s recent post on what Gillard is up against. […]
Media consumers have little to feed on
Anyone who read Tory Shepherd’s article The guts of the matter is that we want policy, not politics on news.com’s The Punch this morning would […]
Margo Kingston: building bridges
There is an old movie line I often recall: A life filled with activity suggests a life filled with purpose. I have no hesitation in […]
Up The Opinion Polls
If we are to take the latest Fairfax Poll at face value and try to analyse the sudden voter turnaround it conjures up a number […]