Senator Payman, Billy Elliot and Other Random Thoughts…
Most people I know loved the film “Billy Elliot” but I must confess that I found it all a bit twee… Look, I love art […]
Mainstream media
Scott Morrison Knows Someone Who Can Change The World!
‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ […]
Labor’s “brave” review fails to upstage Morrison’s incompetence
Were politics reset in keeping with the times, the parties would concede that it is not a contest between social democracy and a capitalist free-for-all, […]
Day to Day Politics: Turnbull’s Election Campaign. Making something of nothing.
Saturday 2 April 2016 Given that the independent Cross Bench Senators fail to pass the ABCC legalisation its odds on that we will be going […]
Day to Day Politics: My after Easter catch up. Bolt looks to Sky.
Tuesday 29 March. 1 After a short break it’s a bit difficult to know where to start, Oh well, let’s start with Bolt. After 5 […]
Day to Day Politics: For Christ’s sake tell the truth.
Friday 4 March 2016 It is said that in war ‘truth’ is the first causality. Lying is probably one of the most common wrong acts […]
Day to Day Politics. Climate Change: A lay person’s dilemma
Wednesday 9 December. 1 The Paris Climate talks are now in their third week. The coverage of this most important and crucial event in the […]
Squeaky Clean
Putting aside the fact that Julia Gillard was treated as a back-stabbing-murderess after she replaced Kevin Rudd as PM. Putting aside that she was labelled […]
The Right Wing Horror Story
Before, during and after the implosion of the Abbott government, commentators have blamed this political failure on a ‘lack of narrative’. The media’s narrative of […]
Who provides the news: Journalists or Twitter?
I’ve noticed recently that a number of articles in the mainstream media revolve around what people are saying on Twitter. I settle into any particular […]
Political Realities, Leadership Change and why Democracy won
There are those on the left who desperately wanted Tony Abbott to be Prime Minister at the next election. They rightly saw his unpopularity as […]
Adam Goodes: Free Speech Vs the Moral Authority to Express a View
Our Constitution does not guarantee free speech. It only implies that we have it. That being said, we assume that anyone has a right to […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
1 It’s difficult to criticise Labor’s proposal to impose the so called Buffet Tax on the rich when the Australian Taxation Office had found that […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday July 18 This is not going to go away. The revelation that Bishop wasn’t prepared to pay back the money for her helicopter flight […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday 4 July 1 Andrew Robb in response to a question about the Coalition’s attitude to the co-sponsored Private Members Bill on same sex marriage […]