Are the TPP and TiSA the beginning of the globalisation of health care?
“It’s hard not feel that we are being attacked at from all angles with corporations eying off developing and developed countries public health services for […]
Muzzling the watchdogs
The purpose of journalism is to serve the community and the purpose of political journalism is to give citizens the information they need to participate […]
Australia and public safety
Domestic Violence According to the most recent National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP) annual report, there have been more than 6,200 homicides in Australia since data […]
We’ve been played for mugs
“It’s clear to me, that for too long, we have given those who might be a threat to our country the benefit of the doubt. […]
Fire: what have we learned from the devastation?
Some of the lessons learned from decades of studying major fires have been learned, and then forgotten, in a drive to simplify the message to […]
The government you have when you don’t have a government
Is anybody still listening to Tony Abbott? Jennifer Wilson doubts it very much, and with good reason. I woke up this morning thinking that I […]
The chilling reality of the TPP
The TPP was conceived in 2003 as the Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP) as a path to trade liberalisation in the Asia-Pacific. The original participating countries […]
Fifty Shades of Tony (with apologies to E. L. James)
“Mr Tee will see you now, Miss Steele. Do go through,” Blonde Number Two says. I stand rather shakily trying to suppress my nerves. “Damn […]
A leader should not lie
With everyone still reeling from the budget delivered last May, and distracted by Tony Abbott’s determination to commit political suicide, Joe Hockey’s MYEFO statement delivered […]
Cruel and unnecessary deaths
Last year 630 Australians died as a result of Hepatitis C. More will die, reports Graham Osborne, while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee rejects calls […]
The Elephants in the Press Gallery
The Press Gallery have been busily, emphatically, excitedly making the most of the new leadership tensions story that Abbott has gifted them over the past […]
Good Government Starts Today … Or Tomorrow, But We’re Definitely Committed To It!
There’s an old cartoon where the couple in a car are speeding down the highway while there’s hundreds of cars stuck in traffic in a […]
If you want this choice position…
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that we will be governed either by the Labor Party or by the Liberal Party in coalition with several […]
Immigration Detention: try living with the life changing effects
So many experts have warned the government about the effects of detention on asylum seekers. The experts have been publicly denouncing detention for years, yet we detain […]
A bombshell hits some Job Networks
Each and every fortnight for the last year I have done the right turning up thing. Actually, that is not quite accurate. For most of […]