A Labor Candidate
As I stood next to Labor South Australian Senate candidate, Michael Allison, handing out how-to-vote cards at a local pre-polling booth, we had a chat […]
No facts please. There’s an election going on.
Regarding censorship Are our politicians now allowed to use the police to clear a venue of any possibly contentious questioners before they arrive? My mate […]
National security theatre
It’s probably a coincidence that there has been a lot more advertising around the National Security Hotline since the election was called. You know the […]
Australia shows America what you get with a Trump
By Peter McCarthy In political history Australia generally follows America by about a decade, although that distance may have shortened up more recently. And by […]
A Letter From Malcolm And Nostalgia Hits; I Start To Reminisce…
Today, I got a letter from Malcolm Turnbull… Ah, I guess I better explain. As well as being those things that are put together to […]
Trying to understand how Senate votes are counted
After reading the AEC publication Counting the votes for the Senate, I rang them and asked the following question. “Could you explain how above the […]
The deterioration of the living standards in Australia
By Arthur Plottier (aka Freethinker) It is the opinion of the the Grattan Institute that Australia’s political system is failing to deal with – among […]
How much international media attention will it take to get direct action and protect the Great Barrier Reef?
By Dr Anthony Horton The current controversy involving Ellen DeGeneres and Australian Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt is certainly not the first time (and […]
Time for a new economic model
By Ken Wolff Late in the 1970s Keynesian economics was largely abandoned when it failed to explain the stagflation that had occurred during that decade. […]
Serial complaining
By Peter McCarthy I accept that I am a political junkie who delights in watching election campaigns, even to the point of trying to watch […]
Not About The Election – Well, Maybe A Bit But I Thought You’d Be Sick Of It So I Lied!
Ok, my connection to the internet keeps pausing and I get this little circle spinning round and I don’t know who or what to blame. […]
Vote with your Spleen
By James Moylan This is a brand new dawn for voting in the Senate. We are using a whole new voting system with such huge […]
A snapshot of a country going backwards
In 2013, the Climate Change Performance Index rated Australia at 40 out of 61 countries and improving. By the time we went to Paris late […]
No one has the right to take the moral high ground
By Tony Bonnici A violent homophobe from a Muslim background – who was on FBI watch and yet licensed to carry assault weapons – kills […]
Full Employment… how a modern economy should operate.
Good ideas are rare these days. Most of what we hear as a new idea is usually one rebranded from long ago and dollied up […]