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 […]
Tony Abbott
Bishop stays. Goodes goes. Abbott is silent. What is wrong with this picture?
In case you are still in any doubt about what matters and what doesn’t to the Anglo-Saxon hegemony think on this: white Speaker of the House […]
With all that is wrong with Australia, all we hear about is boats
I truly detest how this country is treating asylum seekers and I detest the policies of both the Coalition and Labor – none of which […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Where is your spine, Mr Shorten?”
Dear Mr Shorten, I don’t actually know why I afford you the respect of addressing you by title, since you clearly have no respect for […]
Shark Survives Attack By Surfer! Bishop Survives Attack By Left!
So we have a shark swimming by and all of a sudden this surfer, Mick Fanning, sees it and decides to punch it, in spite […]
How do you starve a region of jobs? Just vote LNP!
If you want to starve a region of jobs. If you want to punish the unemployed unnecessarily. – Just vote for a Liberal National Government! A look at the decline of job vacancies under the LNP Government in one region in QLD
Aliens, Allegiance to Australia and 1984
What do aliens, allegiance to Australia and 1984 have in common? Surprisingly, not George Orwell’s spookily accurate prediction of life under the Abbott Government in […]
He really is off his rocker. Or he’s a nut case.
Who else but a leader of dubious mental capacity would say something like this? “This government doesn’t get enough credit, Australia doesn’t get enough credit, […]
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 […]
Cynical? Moi?
The Abbott government’s insistence on secrecy regarding boats carrying asylum seekers has been justified as “not wanting to act as a news service for people […]
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 […]
My Thoughts on the Week That Was
Saturday June 6 1 The Prime Minister’s and Minister Dutton’s responses to Senator Hanson Young’s objection to allegedly being spied on in Nauru was appallingly […]
How Australians Justify Torture
Torture is an evocative word. It conjures up images of shackles, chains, beatings, burnings, suffocation, and waterboarding. Almost everyone has watched a movie that incorporates […]