This is Democracy
500 BCE, Athens This is Democracy. Each year, 500 names are randomly drawn afresh from the pool of eligible voters. These 500 citizens will serve […]
Coalition
And The Winner Is …
This is emphatically not an election campaign about policy. Labor’s are mostly already in place and the Coalition doesn’t have any “big ticket” policies that […]
The government that doesn’t want to govern
On 1 October, the Affordable Health Care Act comes into force in the United States. It has split the US down the middle – by […]
NBN: Redefining Possible
There’s been a lot of noise in certain corners of the media about Rupert Morlock Murdoch and his opposition to the NBN in Australia, which […]
Worse than disrespect
On the face of it, Joe Hockey’s statement that talking about things like “costings” in this election campaign will bore everyone to death seems like […]
Conduct unbecoming?
By now everybody would have seen the widely condemned front page (above) of The Daily Telegraph, but did anybody read the accompanying editorial rubbish? I […]