Amanda Vanstone And The Thought Police!
“If you want to be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb Mm, it seems that Amanda […]
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China Sends Coal (back) to Newcastle
No, this time it isn’t satire and yes, I do acknowledge that these days it’s very hard to tell! When I wrote about Noam Chomsky’s […]
Polyamory, says Betz, But I’m More Concerned About Pandora’s Box And The Judo-Christians!
“If you undo the institution of marriage by redefining it for the latest movement or the latest fad, you will open the Pandora’s box,” he […]
How Tony Abbott Changed My Thinking On Gay Marriage
A few weeks ago, Bill Shorten was proposing a private member’s bill on the legalisation of gay marriage. I thought that it was smart politics. […]
Greece – And Someone Should Tell The Europeans That “No Country Ever Taxed Its Way To Prosperity”
If the phrase “No Country Ever Taxed Its Way To Prosperity” seems familiar, it’s probably because a number of Liberals have used it over the past […]
Turnbull Admits That Politicians Are More Important Than People In Shopping Centres!
Well, yet again I’ve let a member of the Abbott Government distract me from what I was intending to write about. I was going to […]
Why I Support Tony Abbott (And Why You Better Too!)
Ok, I’m not a dual citizen, so I’m pretty safe from the new laws going through Parliament. (I’d refer to them as “the new Bill”, […]
Retrospectivity or Why “Heads Should Roll” at the ABC
As I flicked through the Murdoch Muckraker this morning, I spied a headline where I had difficulty deciding whether the sub-editor had a sense of […]
Terror Australoss
23rd May 2020. Report on Press Conference. Yesterday, the Australian Government held their annual press conference to report that for the third year running everything […]
Why Abbott Is Showing Consistency!
OK, Labor introduced the ‘Carbon Tax’. They thought that it was a good idea to discourage people who were doing the wrong thing … If […]
Adults in charge, or a dolt in charge?
Interviewer: Good afternoon, today we have a Liberal Party spokesperson, Noah Dear, because none of the Parliamentary party were prepared to be interviewed… Mr Dear: […]
Gillian Triggs’ Apology to the Liberal Party
Ok, some in the Liberal Party have suggested that Gillian Trigg’s should apologise for some of her comments over the past few months. Of course, […]
Now Let’s Be Quite Clear, It’s Not That Houses Are Unaffordable, It’s Just That You’re Too Poor, Say Hockey!
“Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, You in mid-air. Send in the clowns.” Steven Sondheim A week […]
Democracy Means That People Voted For Us, So We Can Do What We Like!
INTERVIEWER: Tonight, we’ll be talking to the Minister for Stopping Things, Mr Peter Dull-one, Good evening, Minister. DULL-ONE: Good evening. INTERVIEWER: You’ve recently been critical […]
A Conservative View… Or Something Like That!
Ok, we’ve lived for years with the confusing situation where our “Liberal Party” is very confusing for those in the USA who see calling one […]