“I wonder how the hell you can put a baby in detention”
Dear Prime Minister, I know you are busy ‘securing our nation against the various challenges that we face at home and abroad’. I know same-sex […]
From Little Acorns: The Unemployed Hit Back!
By Edward Eastwood Sauro -“call me, Sam”, is standing in the front row of a line of protesters outside the Melbourne headquarters of Maxx Employment […]
Andrew Nikolickspittle
When Tony Abbott faced a leadership spill in February, newly elected MP Andrew Nikolic seized an opportunity to ingratiate himself with his boss. In what […]
Coalition tanks welfare
Coalition tanks welfare: We must stop their efforts to divide Australians. I am not for a second saying that Coalition voters are beyond the pale. […]
Global food shock may be very close
By Dr Anthony Horton A new peer reviewed risk assessment produced by Lloyd’s of London shows that humanity may be on the verge of collapse […]
How Tony Abbott Changed My Thinking On Gay Marriage
A few weeks ago, Bill Shorten was proposing a private member’s bill on the legalisation of gay marriage. I thought that it was smart politics. […]
Tony Abbott: the human face of evil
More than forty current and former workers at Australia’s detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island are challenging Tony Abbott and Peter Dutton to prosecute […]
Do you remember B.A. when the world had a chance?
There was a time, in the days before Abbott, when the world had a chance. Today’s post is brought to you by The Liberal Party. […]
Greece – And Someone Should Tell The Europeans That “No Country Ever Taxed Its Way To Prosperity”
If the phrase “No Country Ever Taxed Its Way To Prosperity” seems familiar, it’s probably because a number of Liberals have used it over the past […]
$8.8 million isn’t a lot of money, but apparently $66,000 is!
Refurbishment of the prime minister’s official Canberra residence will cost taxpayers more than $8.8 million – at least $5 million more than originally expected. It […]
Government Welfare Spin Draws Community Outrage
MARCH AUSTRALIA Media Release, 30 June 2015 A Daily Telegraph article on social welfare (“Australia’s welfare bill to top $190b with taxpayers funding 240 million […]
Who do you Trust?
In a time of unprecedented deceit, telling the truth has become a revolutionary act. Whether an early election is imminent or not, the signs suggest […]
Cynical? Moi?
The Abbott government’s insistence on secrecy regarding boats carrying asylum seekers has been justified as “not wanting to act as a news service for people […]
OLD PEOPLE: We walk straight past them. We ignore them.
They sit on park benches catching a few rays, and we walk straight past them. They lounge on benches in our shopping malls, and we […]