Stop The Homeless … A Moderate Proposal
When it’s all boiled down, politicians aren’t actually there to run the country. That’s what we have the public service for. It’s not that politicians […]
Malcolm Turnbull
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 […]
Reward for achievement?
When Peter Dutton, at age 30, was elected to Federal Parliament in 2001, he said “it brought to a climax a lifetime of hard work […]
Abbott another Right Wing Nutter
There’s nothing quite as pathetic as watching a former Australian prime minister trying to redress a less than stellar political career. That Tony Abbott would […]
Education, Re-education And Tony Who?
A few days ago I read that the education system was failing because one in four students don’t complete Year 12. That interests me because […]
Malcolm’s test
In six weeks’ time, we will see if Malcolm Turnbull is a leader of substance or a snake oil salesman. You have to admire his […]
Malcolm Fears neither Debt nor the Conservatives.
What a monumental turn around. In a newspaper interview this week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shrugged off the Abbott-Hockey debt and deficit rhetoric and […]
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 […]
Against radicalisation
By Barry Hindess My title might seem to suggest an hostility to radicalisation, that is, to the thing itself – and thus as endorsing the […]
Delivery Strategies for Australia’s New Infrastructure Consensus
Denis Bright invites discussion about of the most appropriate delivery models for best practice in bipartisan commitments to Australian transport infrastructure. The LNP’s conservative template […]
What If The Liberals Were Running Volkswagen…
Volkswagen has recently had a bit of trouble. After discovering that the steering was faulty on some vehicles a couple of years ago, they’ve recently […]
Turnbull’s actions should carry a trigger warning for all women who have survived sexual violence
At a time when we are struggling in this country with the death of two women every week from male-perpetrated domestic violence, and the physical, […]
Let’s We Forget! Turnbull, Turnbull, Turnull. Whoops, I Left out out a “B”…
It’s suddenly grown harder to write. Both satire AND intelligent articles. I mean, when Tony Abbott was PM, all you had to do was quote […]
Turnbull and Dutton wage war on women
When Tony Abbott was Prime Minister it was difficult to imagine myself feeling more contempt and loathing for any politician than the contempt and loathing […]
Why don’t they just go back to where they came from?
There was a protest against the proposed mosque in Bendigo. I know this because, not only was it front page news this morning, but for […]