What can we expect in the coming election?
By Ken Wolff Apart from the obvious statements, we can also tell there is an election in the air as, after six months of inactivity, […]
We know where Scott Morrison stands
By Shane Crocker The Australian Christian Lobby is holding their 2016 National Conference in Sydney next weekend. Miranda Devine is the special guest speaker for […]
Turnbull Loses Several Votes In Preselection Contests!
OK, this is not well-researched or – indeed – full of the sort of off the record quotes that we’ve come to accept as news, […]
The ongoing News Limited ‘reality show’
By James Moylan We all know that the Queensland Government just ‘OK’d’ the largest coal mine ever to be built, which will employ oodles and […]
How changes in the perception of domestic violence will benefit us all
By Tracie Aylmer There are wonderful benefits to the recent conversation about domestic violence. It’s now out in the open that it happens, and it […]
Royal Commissions Are A Waste Of Money!
So let’s see if I’ve got this straight: We needed a Royal Commission into the home insulation scheme. At the end of it, we discovered […]
Can Shorten Win?
When Malcolm Turnbull made his pitch to the media the day he successfully challenged Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership, he warned of the […]
Barcelona tonight
Guest post by Paul Walter, a longtime friend of my blog ‘No Place for Sheep’ and ‘The AIMN’. Fans of Media Watch will recall from […]
Trump de l’oeil
(Trompe de l’oeil is an art technique that creates the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions. Literally “trick the eye”). That Republican Presidential […]
Manufacturing is not dead, it’s just transitioning
By Mel Mac In recent days there has been much conjecture as to who let Arrium get into over $4bn worth of debt and the […]
Perceptions of corruption
By 2353NM During March, in what strategists at the time claimed was a masterstroke, Prime Minister Turnbull recalled the Parliament from April 18 primarily to […]
This is not the Australia I know and love
When some people speak of the previous Labor government, they talk of disunity or of debt, which ignores the many wonderful achievements of the Rudd/Gillard […]
Inequality will be a hot button election issue
By Ad astra ‘Inequality’ is a term used by economists. Joseph Stiglitz has been writing for years about its damaging effect. His book: The Price […]
Malcolm Faces a Struggle
The mainstream media may not have noticed but there has been an increase in union bashing on social media over the past 5 days. It […]
Kenya: What Happened with the International Criminal Court
By Tracie Alymer Kenya is a very interesting case, which impacts upon the rest of the world in a way that could never possibly be […]