Donald Trump, Law And Order And The Effing Obvious
Ok, Donald Trump is now promising to make people safe again. F*ckin’ awesome. All right, I know that swearing is not really appropriate and it […]
It hasn’t happened yet
As I try to understand why my fellow citizens have elected people like Pauline Hanson and George Christensen, it seems fear is a common component. […]
War in a public place: The Bastille Day attack, the strategy and tactics of Insurgencies
By Dr Strobe Driver Introduction As difficult as it is to write on such a recent event in a clinical way, due to the carnage […]
A Morbid Fear of Intelligence
By Ross Sharp July 13, 2016, ABC’s “7.30 Report” begins. An interview with Wyatt Roy, the youngest person ever to be elected to Federal Parliament, and […]
Census 2016 … A Seismic Secular Shift
By Brian Morris When a leading betting agency makes a ground-breaking move to lay odds on the upcoming census you know something is about to […]
Mr Turnbull, where are your verbs?
By Ad astra It was one of The Political Sword’s regular contributors, Casablanca, who drew my attention to the absence of a verb in the […]
In a nutshell, Australians are becoming poorer
By Arthur Plottier This week we have in the news the ‘The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey’ (the HILDA report) and it […]
And so it begins – is Malcolm up to the challenge?
George Christensen has called for major changes to the Coalition superannuation policy or he will cross the floor. The Mackay-based MP did not express his […]
The election in numbers
By Ken Wolff We know the Liberals lost 13 seats, or in other words Labor gained 13 seats, with one seat, Herbert, still in the […]
We can learn from the abestos scandal
Last week asbestos was found again in imported Chinese building materials, this time it was found at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) in the roof panels. […]
Why we need an Iraq war Royal Commission – Sign my petition
A guest blog by redcuchulain People have been asking me why I would want to start a petition into the war in Iraq? Quite simply, I […]
The August Census – Much Ado about Nothing
By Janine Gebert The Census will happen next month, August 9. Given many of us still feel blistered by the anthems of self-interest surrounding the […]
The Liberals are dreaming
By Ken Wolff On Sunday morning 10 July, before Shorten conceded defeat in the election, Arthur Sinodinos appeared on the ABC’s Insiders. He claimed the […]
Learning to love Big Brother
It is time to be pessimistic. Joy has fled. Hope is dead. The sun is setting on the election and we are entering a long, […]
We need to talk about Steve
After watching Steve Price block Van Badham’s attempts to speak about the cultural problem of disrespect to women, in what could have been a training […]