Day to Day Politics: Polls Apart in Policy.
Tuesday 16 February 2016 1 Malcolm Turnbull still has a handsome lead over Bill Shorten in the preferred Prime Minister stakes but yesterday’s Fairfax-Ipsos showed […]
Unemployment To Reach 50%? Let’s Talk About Sex Rather Than Opportunity.
The Guardian had a rather interesting article, “Would You Bet Against Sex Robots. AI could leave half of the world unemployed.” Interestingly, the part of […]
Corporate con job
Recently, Labor Senator Sam Dastayari claimed there are 10 companies that have an “unprecedented concentration of corporate influence” in Australia, to the point where it […]
Consensus Reality
The publication of John Lord’s article on Facebook today – because it mentioned the word ‘race’ – seemed to be the trigger for ‘Abo haters’ […]
The Road to Perdition: Australia and the Neoconservative agenda
By Dr Strobe Driver Adding to John Kelly’s fine AIMN article of 11 January, 2016 entitled ‘What is Neoliberalism and why knowing matters’, I would […]
Day to Day Politics: Bolt is at it again
Sunday 14 February 2016 1 I haven’t read his full article but it seems Andrew Bolt is writing about race again. He has a very limited […]
Guarding against the Monster
By Anthony Element OAM In 1965, James Baldwin wrote a short story called ‘Going to Meet the Man’. It’s about Jesse, a small town sheriff […]
The NBN is on the wrong path
By Mel Mac After the Coalition won government in 2013, the then Communications Minister and now current Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull promised that […]
“Australians All Let Us Ring Joyce, For He Is Deputy!”
Ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times! Barnaby Joyce, our Deputy PM, eh? Well, it just goes to show that if you have […]
What is this government trying to do and why?
What is this government trying to do and why? They want lower taxes and smaller government but why? They want a surplus but why? They […]
Greg Hunt named world’s worst Environment Minister
What a pity that those judges who saw fit to bestow upon Greg Hunt the title of ‘Best Minister in the World’ don’t read The […]
No, I’m not rejoycing
1 The day has finally arrived. Barnaby Joyce has become Deputy Prime Minister of Australia. Now we have a Prime Minister who firmly believes in […]
Mansplain That, You Matronising Bitch!
Ah, I guess you’ve heard Mitch Fifield lost it today … Over the term “mansplaining”. Now, mansplaining. That’s a combination of “man” and “explain” and “ing” […]
Towards an Australian republic (conclusion)
By Dr George Venturini What kind of republic and how to get there There are some 600,000 non-for-profit community organisations in Australia. There are serious […]
What Greg Hunt did to win his award
By now you would have all recovered from the astonishing news that our alleged Environment Minister, Greg Hunt has won the inaugural Best Minister in […]