Moral Bankruptcy and Civil Liberties in Modern Australian Politics
The Abbott Government’s gradual destruction of our civil liberties is not something we should be taking lightly, writes Daniel Ellery. Almost 20 years ago, the […]
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A ‘People’s vote’ on marriage equality: Abbott’s latest Truthiness phrase?
Following last week’s cabinet discussion on marriage equality, Tony Abbott announced that: “going into the next election, you’ll have the Labor Party which wants [marriage […]
Leadership, scandal, and the political process
When sitting Liberal Prime Minister John Howard lost his seat in the 2007 Federal election, three people raised their hand for the leadership of the […]
Fool me once…
Watching the Abbott government is like watching the rerun of a movie with the same script but worse actors. Consider Howard in 2001 as he approached […]
Complaint against John Howard to the International Criminal Court
Australia’s former Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. A document titled Complaint against […]
How about some other political witch hunts, Mr Abbott?
Tony Abbott promised to do many things if the LNP won the 2013 election. One of these, which was no doubt driven by populism and […]
Never-ending story
In April I wrote an article about the Coalition’s history on superannuation. This is an updated version. Keeping up with their ever-changing promises is turning […]
Sweeteners
“Australians don’t want another election”, says Tony Abbott. Naturally, this reflects both his own achievement of the goal – personal power – and the government’s […]
Abbott’s ‘Team Australia’ has a tinge of Howard about it
“‘Don’t migrate to Australia unless you want to join “Team Australia”’, declared our chest-beating Prime Minister. “Everyone has got to be on team Australia,” he […]
The Miser’s Apprentice
I recently came across an article from 2009 called The Howard Impact which compares Australia’s performance against seventeen other advanced democracies including the United States, […]
The romance of the retro PM
The more we see of Tony Abbott the more we are see of a person to dislike and distrust. And what we see emerging is […]
Merchants of Hypocrisy: Open for the Business of War
As the situation between Russia and Ukraine deteriorates to the brink of war, is our government entertaining the thought of joining in on this war, […]
The Superannuation saga
While a pained Joe Hockey tells us his “truth” about the mess Labor has supposedly left, and that the old age pension is no longer […]
Wherever I lay my hat that’s my home
In 1996 John Howard became the first Prime Minister to make Kirribilli House in Sydney his prime residence. Over the next 12 years, this decision […]
Tony Abbott stuffs it up … again
Fairfax’s Friday offering is from Chief Political Correspondent, Mark Kenny and comes accompanied by this impressive headline: Tony Abbott’s pre-budget fortnight of blunders and stuff-ups […]