In the Dark Shadow of Conservative Rule
As a senior Australian and one who has witnessed a variety of social reforms over the past 60 years, today I feel profoundly sad. This […]
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Why Clive Palmer may not be Abbott’s karma! A pattern emerges …
Anyone else wondering if there’s a pattern starting here? The Government proposes something. Clive creates BIG HEADLINES by suggesting that he’ll block it. There’s a bit […]
Conspiracy of silence
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down […]
Why This Post Is Not About Ian Thorpe Even Though A Lamb Roast Might Still Cost $100!
“As some of you may have guessed, I’m a practising heterosexual. Yeah, I don’t know why that would be of interest to anyone either, but […]
This Reprehensible Rabble
If anything was patently obvious from the events in Canberra last week, it is that Clive Palmer thinks he is running the country and the […]
The Ugly Australians
When one analyses the government’s general performance thus far, it is easy to form the impression that they are so focused on, and beating their […]
Axing the taxes equates to self harm
I am trying to understand why we are repealing the carbon and mining taxes. “The carbon tax is a $7.6 billion dollar hit on the […]
Fun With Numbers And Why Welfare Should Only Go To The Deserving
“This year the Australian government will spend on average over $6,000 on welfare for every man, woman and child in the country. Given that only […]
Back where you came from
Someone gave me some good advice when I was a single woman: when you’re out on a date with a man, take note of how […]
Is Clive Palmer the de facto Prime Minister?
It’s an odd sounding question but not without foundation. Clive Palmer’s bombshell press conference with Al Gore where he announced his party’s voting intentions in […]
This government is now officially obscene
One of my more mundane, but at times more amusing jobs as a federal public servant was for a short time reviewing letters to and […]
A ‘budget emergency’: it’s all about choices
The excuse for the draconian cuts made by Abbott and Hockey is that there is a budget emergency and a debt crisis. I in no […]
Compare the pair
Joe Hockey’s budget has been widely rejected by the Australian people. And he knows it. How do I know he knows it? Because why else […]
Joe Hockey, Shrek and Other Misunderstood Ogres!
“This year the Australian government will spend on average over $6,000 on welfare for every man, woman and child in the country. Given that only […]
No ‘love’ in the Abbott Government’s ‘tough’
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey have taken to describing their budgetary cruelty as an act of “tough love” for which we may […]