The Economy is Like a Giant Blancmange, Except that it’s Not.
Many people see the economy as like a household budget. You need to keep it all neat and orderly and manage it. Others see it […]
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The Greens support is dropping – just shows that climate change isn’t real
Ok, I’ve read a number of times about The Greens losing votes in the Federal Election. Then after Saturday’s Miranda By-Election in NSW where the […]
Hockey To Lift Debt Ceiling by 33%, and the Hypocrisy Level to an All-time High
If you search really hard, you’ll find some reporting of this: “The Federal Government’s debt ceiling could be raised to $400 billion in a bid […]
Just a short post, beginning with FFS! Very exasperated, very loud!
FFS! Just read this on http://www.news.com.au/ It’s about Abbott’s meeting with Prince Charles. Maybe a Republic will be soon on the agenda. “While the lunch-table conversation […]
Google, Winners and Losers
Google time! Pretty much everyone is familiar with Google’s idea of giving their employees a day a week to work on their own projects. (If […]
Let’s get rid of this “toxic tax” and help poor struggling families…
“The Prime Minister said cabinet had today signed off on the legislation to rescind the carbon price, which would ideally occur at the end of […]
Double Dissolution Now! Well, no, that’s actually not possible…
At the end of an article on the Governor General’s offer to resign, a journalist wrote that there better not be a Double Dissolution before […]
Clive Palmer and his Party, or And Then There Were Four
The first thing that everyone needs to remember is that individuals, not parties, are elected into our Parliament. We have evolved some conventions – such […]
Wedding in Wang, Study Trip to India, and Winery Tour – Pick the odd one out!
“Mr Abbott’s spokeswoman confirmed the Prime Minister had repaid the $1095 cost of travelling to Sophie Mirabella’s 2006 wedding “in the last few days”.” Read […]
Writing the Narrative, or should that be “Righting the Narrative”?
“As a result, a story has emerged about Labor that goes like this. Faced with the transformation of its old supporter base, and having failed […]
Chomsky, Alanis Morisette and Irony
“The political policies that are called conservative these days would appall any genuine conservative, if there were one around to be appalled. For example, the […]
“Tony Abbott Worst PM in History” lacks Irony: Paul Sheehan lacks grip on reality!
Paul Sheehan devoted two columns to a Facebook group called, “Tony Abbott Worst PM in Australian History.” Now, I’ve always thought that there are certain […]
No News is Good News – Abbott’s Trip to Indonesia a Great Success
TONY Abbott says he wants to “bring on” Indonesian joint ventures to buy Australian cattle as he defended Indonesian abattoirs as being “quite comparable” to […]
“Anger Is An Energy” but as it’s renewable, I think the Liberals will ignore it!
“They put a hot wire to my head Cos of the things I did and said And made these feelings go away Model citizen in […]
“Why don’t you people just accept that the Coalition won the election and stop complaining?”
Our economy is in a mess. And we’ve just had the worst Government in the history of Australia. We know this because we’ve been told […]