“Why don’t you people just accept that the Coalition won the election and stop complaining?”
Our economy is in a mess. And we’ve just had the worst Government in the history of Australia. We know this because we’ve been told […]
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Fonnix rools – it is the onilly wae to teech studants to spel!
It’s a vision of the future – grounded in the past. New Education Minister Christopher Pyne invites us to imagine classrooms where teachers return to […]
Just a link to the new Climate Commission. Sorry, Council.
From kayelee1: UPDATE from the Climate Council: “In just 13 hours we’ve had over 5,000 people become founding members of the Climate Council. Together they’ve […]
Just remember – we’re not independent and we’re all idiots
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of taking a class called “Oral English” which was one hour a week and in it Year […]
Being hypocritical is the new black
“Tony Abbott’s election victory give us the chance to push for the repeal of laws stifling our right to free speech, which came under such […]
The Cassandra Effect, Abbott and Boiling a Frog. Dr Who?
I step out of the phone box. I look around. Picking up a paper, I see the date September 16th, 2009. Either the time travel […]
Whose fault is it?
I once observed that it’d benefit a lot of organizations if someone was paid to take the blame when things go wrong. “We’ve overestimated/underestimated/overspent/missed the […]
Usually, they wait till you’ve signed the contract before revealing the fine print!
Who else received a Contract from Tony Abbott? Just wondering, because I misplaced mine and I’ve been searching for it on the internet, and I […]
Let’s All Buy Fairfax Shares and Stop publishing Amanda Vanstone
I always try to consider the possibility that I may be wrong. In 1975, I was one of the few students to say that Malcolm […]
People told me to read between the lines, but I didn’t see anything written there!
“Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a Coalition policy to pay long-term unemployed young people who find a job up to $15,500 is “a sensible investment”. […]
Politics is even more boring than I thought! (I just watched the debate…)
The trouble with the debate – and politics in general – is that people were asked complicated questions, and the “winner” was the person who could […]
Accurate predictions for election result, Melbourne Cup and the stock market
More than 90% of everything is predictable; most predictions are wrong. How do I reconcile those two things. Well, quite simply, people don’t bother to […]
“Thinking, Fast and Slow”
“Unless there is an obvious reason to do otherwise, most of us passively accept decision problems as they are framed and therefore rarely have an […]
A Clarification – not a backdown on the PPL!
“Earlier this week, a Labor backbencher, Michelle Rowland, was denied a ‘pair’ in spite of having a sick child. We have in the studio, Mr […]
$110,000 done, $69 billion to go
I actually read things. You know how you just click on “I agree to these terms and conditions” when joining something? Well, I’m the guy […]