The Decline and Fall of ‘Team Australia’
As much as I struggled to agree with anything John Howard said or did when he was Prime Minister, there is one thing I had […]
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Home, home on the range
On August 4th, Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews launched 2014 Homeless Persons Week where he “reinforced the Coalition’s commitment to help those without safe […]
Malevolent
The 2014 budget omitted the table of adjusted family outcomes that had been in every previous budget since 2005. The analysis was done by […]
Al Capone, serendipity, karma, Tony Abbott and all that jazz . . .
First watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHEeG_uq5Y Ok, for those of you who thought that George Brandis bore a striking resemblance to Elmer Fudd, he did his best […]
Multiple Ministers Scoring ‘Own Goals’
Over the past week or so we have witnessed examples of possibly the most mistake prone bunch of ministerial amateurs we have seen in the […]
Joe Hockey, which planet do you live on?
To Joe Hockey. The news that a young homeless couple were found dead in their car was news that you would, in an indirect way, […]
Humanity’s Choice
It was a cold morning in mid August in 2013 when the choice finally dawned on me, after almost 3 years at University and two […]
Judging the sales pitch: #mediafail
As I mentioned last week, I am researching political narrative by investigating the words that come out of politicians’ mouths and are written in press […]
Refugee Insanity: The Crippling Cost of Australia’s Cruelty…
There is no arguing, Australia’s policies for dealing with refugees cost us a fortune. Off shore detention costs about $3750 per day, per person. Disposable […]
Could it get any worse?
We have been given the impression by certain members of the media recently that Tony Abbott is being hailed as some sort of world leader […]
Our Future
I do not profess to being an investment whiz or understanding all the nuances of government finance, but I am good at managing a budget […]
‘Middle-Out’ Economics
Here it is. Here is the wealth inequality narrative progressives have been searching for. Yesterday I wrote about rich wankers and a couple of helpful […]
Tell me what I want to hear
As it becomes increasingly apparent that households will not be $550 a year better off without the carbon tax we hear the rhetoric change. Andrew […]
Is there really such a thing as national debt?
In a recent article by Warwick Smith in The Guardian, a group of economists refuted three of the government’s claims, namely that there was a […]
Australia beckons India: more antagonism from the Abbott Government toward China
Is the Abbott Government playing a major part in inflaming and destabilising the security of the Asia-Pacific Region? Dr Strobe Driver reports. Prime Minister Abbott’s […]