Confusion in the Turnbull Government
Much about the Turnbull Government confuses me. Either I don’t know what they’re talking about, or they themselves have no idea what they’re talking about. […]
GST
Skip the work and save part and go straight to invest, you’ll be better off
Today Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox is giving a speech in which he will assert that broadening the base of the GST and […]
Labor’s Scare Campaign . . .
“This morning, we’ll be talking to prominent Coalition supporter, Mr Con Server-Tiff. Good morning.” “Now, if I can just correct you, I’m not a Coalition […]
Tax And The Bleeding Obvious!
Ok, most of the focus on discussions about the GST has been about how it’s a regressive tax and how it affects the poor more […]
Morrison’s Approaching Waterloo
It may be early days but Joe Hockey’s second and final attempt to bring down a credible budget appears to be unravelling already. Even on […]
The Great Hoax, Climate Change or the GST?
Personally, I think that maths is overvalued in schools. Now I’m not talking numeracy, I’m talking trigonometry, surds, quadratic equations and a whole range of […]
Why would anybody want to re-elect this government?
Voters must have an intense dislike of asylum seekers. The latest Morgan Poll is great for the government, which sees them leading the opposition 56.5/43.5. […]
Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it, you die. What is it?
As the snake oil salesman and his happy clapper gear up to sell us on their compensation for a higher GST, it is worth remembering […]
Malcolm and Scott’s great big new tax on everything
According to the Liberal Party newsletter, aka the Telegraph, the party who never raises taxes, the party who screamed blue murder about the carbon and […]
Vote for Tony
By opposing same sex marriage, Tony Abbott has reinforced the notion that homosexuality is “queer” – that members of the LGBTI community are a threat […]
First speaker in the mature debate
Dear Mr Abbott, I welcome your call for a mature debate on taxation. I too deplored the “screaming match” that surrounded the introduction of carbon […]
Random thoughts
When Malcolm Turnbull called for a vote on the Liberal leadership in 2009, Tony Abbott eventually won by one vote. One of Malcolm’s supporters was […]
Factional fighting
The title of this article is Murdochesque in that it may have inflamed anger you are already feeling, but the article that follows won’t provide […]
Rupert Murdoch, where’s the outrage?
You may recall that one of the fabricated fears planted in people’s’ minds before the last election was that a Labor Government would raise the […]