Education, Re-education And Tony Who?
A few days ago I read that the education system was failing because one in four students don’t complete Year 12. That interests me because […]
Cheap-labour conservatives
Several years ago, US blogger Conceptual Guerilla coined a three-word slogan that explains right wing ideology very succinctly – “cheap-labour conservatives”. He agrees with Karl […]
Why must it always be the workers who pay?
The foundation of the Australian Federal Minimum Wage was the 1907 Harvester decision where Justice Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, […]
Malcolm’s test
In six weeks’ time, we will see if Malcolm Turnbull is a leader of substance or a snake oil salesman. You have to admire his […]
Malcolm Fears neither Debt nor the Conservatives.
What a monumental turn around. In a newspaper interview this week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off the Abbott-Hockey debt and deficit rhetoric and […]
Tony The Speaker – Weddings, Parties, Whatever!
No, not the Speaker of the House. That’s reserved for someone who can behave in a non-partisan, dignified way like Bronwyn Bishop, who I think […]
Squeaky Clean
Putting aside the fact that Julia Gillard was treated as a back-stabbing-murderess after she replaced Kevin Rudd as PM. Putting aside that she was labelled […]
Against radicalisation
By Barry Hindess My title might seem to suggest an hostility to radicalisation, that is, to the thing itself – and thus as endorsing the […]
Metadata, Australia and Edward Snowden
By Daniel Ellery I have some thoughts, one being that this war on ‘terrorism’ has created through surveillance on unparalleled scales, the largest form of […]
Delivery Strategies for Australia’s New Infrastructure Consensus
Denis Bright invites discussion about of the most appropriate delivery models for best practice in bipartisan commitments to Australian transport infrastructure. The LNP’s conservative template […]
Canadian Election: Paradigm Change for the Better?
Denis Bright invites discussion about the rise of inclusive politics in Canada with the formation of a majority Liberal government after nine long years in […]
The tearing down of our social fabric
Yesterday Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells addressed the National Press Club on conservatism in contemporary Australian society. According to the Senator, she, and her views, represent the […]
Bodies that matter. Bodies that don’t.
It’s profoundly concerning that Abyan, the Somali refugee currently living on Nauru and victim of a rape that left her pregnant, was forbidden to see […]
Abyan needs help, not harassment: bring her off Nauru
A media release from the Refugee Action Coalition The aggressive attempts by the Nauruan police to interview Abyan reveal their complete lack of concern for […]
Am I not pretty enough?
When I recently saw a photograph of Julie Bishop’s boyfriend David Panton sitting next to her in the official delegates section on the floor of […]