Senator Back To The Future!
“Senator Back: In terms of the effects, I did ask the Chief Medical Officer of South Australia in Adelaide the other day whether or not […]
Austerity doesn’t work. The lesson from Greece is clear.
If the Australian Government, the Opposition, the MSM and the common people cannot learn from events now playing out across Europe and the USA, namely […]
The Australia Tree
A metaphor occurred to me today about the Abbott government and I felt it was good enough to share. There’s nothing like a good metaphor […]
The Idiot’s Guide to avoiding Terrorists under the bed
“When Abbott was voted in, various jokes circulated about Australia returning to the 1950s. It seems that these weren’t too far from the truth.” In […]
For once I agree with Tony Abbott
This is what Tony Abbott had to say in June 2009: Let us be absolutely upfront about this. The greatest political crime that a member […]
Amanda Vanstone And The Thought Police!
“If you want to be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb Mm, it seems that Amanda […]
You don’t stand for me
When Tony Abbot gave his address to the 58th Liberal Federal Council in June he said “From ‘Menzies’ forgotten people’, to the ‘Howard battlers’ and […]
Goodbye Tony Abbott: Let’s keep the States and abolish the Commonwealth of Australia!
(The beauty of playing Devil’s Advocate is that you can say anything you like. So, let’s have a bit of fun and imagine what it would […]
Value for money?
When it was revealed that, on top of his $332,000 salary package and $40,000 accommodation allowance, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson had claimed $77,763 for […]
Abbott caught between a rock and a hard place on marriage equality
One of the more illuminating aspects of Abbott’s predictable reaction to the co party sponsored legislation on same-sex marriage is that it highlights just how conservative […]
One of these things is not like the others
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Q&A reaction a sign of panic
When one analyses the furore over Zaky Mallah’s appearance on Q&A two weeks ago it isn’t hard to see what the government is trying to […]
China Sends Coal (back) to Newcastle
No, this time it isn’t satire and yes, I do acknowledge that these days it’s very hard to tell! When I wrote about Noam Chomsky’s […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday June 27 1 Do you ever wonder what happened to the debt crisis? That time when Abbott and Hockey used every negative description they […]
Polyamory, says Betz, But I’m More Concerned About Pandora’s Box And The Judo-Christians!
“If you undo the institution of marriage by redefining it for the latest movement or the latest fad, you will open the Pandora’s box,” he […]