Know your Senate candidates – Barry O’Sullivan
Barry O’Sullivan is the Queensland Senator who was appointed to fill the Senate vacancy left by Barnaby Joyce’s move to the lower house in 2013. […]
Top hats versus hard hats
By Ad astra Now that the official election campaign has entered its second week, it’s time to assess how each of the major political parties […]
The barbie bigot is back: on Turnbull
By Ken Wolff I previously took Brandis’s advice that we have a right to be a bigot an’ had a go at our last PM, […]
The Green betrayal
The last three years of Liberal National government have been absolutely nightmarish. Their ideological wrecking-ball has crashed through every imaginable progressive policy area. They have […]
Public interest be damned
The notion of “public interest” has been officially abandoned. The interests of the government are now paramount and they intend to keep a very tight […]
Malcolm only had one job to do
The NBN has been in the news a lot today, and for all the wrong reasons. It reminds us that the government’s NBN, of course, […]
Medical ice age: big freeze continues
By Ken Wolff In a previous piece I asked why the freeze on Medicare rebates, that has been in effect since November 2012, was not […]
Oh, Malcolm, you are true to form
By Mark Clifford Does the name Godwin Grech ring a bell with anyone? Of late I have been saying and writing such profound words like […]
The Independent NBNco AFP Police Officer
Ok, I guess you’ve all heard about the Australian Federal Police raid on Labor offices and the homes of Labor staffers. And I guess you’ve […]
Broad church vs damaging splitters
Instead of a billboard announcing boat arrivals (which was apparently not aiding people smugglers), the Coalition have gone for a scoreboard of how many Labor […]
The Income Divide in Australia: The Return of Class-Based Politics?
By Denis Bright For the first time in generations, issues about social class are intruding into the 2016 election agenda. Barnaby Joyce made an unintended […]
A Little Balance – Because The Liberal Party Do Seem Rather Unbalanced Lately!
“Good evening, Mr Turnbull and thanks for agreeing to this interview.” “Good evening, and if I can just pull you up there, I didn’t agree […]
Breaking the Dog Whistle
You can’t blame the Liberals and their communications strategists for believing the demonization of refugees is a vote winner. The rise of Pauline Hanson, who […]
When Turnbull still gave a shit
In July 2011, Malcolm Turnbull addressed the Virginia Chadwick Foundation. The following is an excerpt from his speech: “….the most significant but least tractable threat […]
Flagship Flailing, Coalition Failing
We are now well into the second week of the election campaign and it would seem the Coalition is starting to feel the heat. Their […]