Donald Trump: The Fear Whisperer
I hate Huntsman Spiders. Correction – I am terrified of them. It doesn’t matter that I know they can’t kill me. They are a HUGE, […]
How did Trump happen?
I am terrified of Donald Trump. If he wins the Republican nomination, which he looks likely to do, he will no longer be able to […]
Three Cheers For Trump And The Poorly Educated!
Trump on not turning down election donations: “It’s hard for me to turn down money because that’s what I’ve done in my whole life; I […]
Marriage Equality. How Tolerant?
Today marks another year of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Malcolm Turnbull will be the first Prime Minister to attend the Mardi Gras. […]
The next election is our chance for a people’s revolution
Last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) produced a paper titled Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A Global Perspective. They found that “increasing the […]
She fed him tenderly, as if he were a baby bird
In Nikki Savva’s EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK the author describes a dinner at which then Prime Minister Tony Abbott was observed being fed food from a […]
Spreading hate, the Murdoch way
The second most important story on news.com this morning was ‘IS teen girl stabs police officer in Germany’. You can see the link to it […]
In which Pell crosses to the other side of the road
Over the last few days of his questioning at the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, Cardinal George Pell demonstrated the opposite of what his […]
Day to Day Politics: For Christ’s sake tell the truth.
Friday 4 March 2016 It is said that in war ‘truth’ is the first causality. Lying is probably one of the most common wrong acts […]
Why George Pell Is Subject To A Witch Hunt
Ok, this what George Pell said: “I didn’t know whether it was common knowledge or whether it wasn’t. It’s a sad story and it wasn’t […]
How very disappointing Malcolm
In his 2005 tax policy paper, Malcolm Turnbull described negative gearing and the CGT discount as a “sheltering tax haven” that is “skewing national investment […]
Morrison misreads the state of the Economy
The latest national accounts figures for the December quarter, as boring as they may be to some, caused the Treasurer, Scott Morrison to be upbeat […]
Safe Schools, Unsafe Politicians
By Ad astra Now we see it, the Christian-Right Liberal reactionaries digging their cruel claws into PM Turnbull over the ‘Safe Schools’ program, one specifically […]
My house isn’t an asset. It’s my home.
There’s been a lot of noise over the past few weeks about how changes to negative gearing could lower housing prices. According to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: […]
Day to Day Politics: The Evil Priest
Wednesday 2 March 2016 1 Cardinal Pell in giving evidence to the Royal Commission into the abuse of children uttered two of the most debauched […]