Waiting For Lefty
Tony Abbott’s days as leader of the Coalition are numbered. Whether or not he takes the LNP down with him remains to be seen. This weeks Senate debacle was simply another of a long line marked by...
View ArticleThe puppet masters
Image by The Australian Before the time of Gough Whitlam, the public service were largely responsible for the formulation and co-ordination of policy and senior public servants made the important...
View ArticleWhy Clive Palmer may not be Abbott’s karma! A pattern emerges . . .
Clive Palmer (image by 4bc.com.au) Anyone else wondering if there’s a pattern starting here? The Government proposes something. Clive creates BIG HEADLINES by suggesting that he’ll block it. There’s a...
View ArticleIn the Dark Shadow of Conservative Rule
As a senior Australian and one who has witnessed a variety of social reforms over the past 60 years, today I feel profoundly sad. This is the first such occasion where, instead of being proud that we...
View ArticleTony Abbott Changes Liberal Foreign Policy
Image source: truepolitik.blogspot.com “Let’s wait until we’ve got all the facts in before we come to hard and fast conclusions. But obviously it is the clear and settled position of the Australian...
View ArticleTracking Abbott’s Wreckage (September Update)
Sally McManus is the Secretary of the Australian Services Union in NSW and the ACT. She has been a campaigner and an organiser for more than 20 years and spent a lot of time doing and talking about...
View ArticleSeriously. Is our Democracy stuffed?
Two books have recently been published that address the state of our democracy. The first “Triumph and Demise” is by The Australian’s editor-at-large, Paul Kelly. In the final chapter Kelly suggests...
View ArticleAbbott –“It’s a Matter of Trust”
Those with long memories will recall that Sir Robert Menzies said that he had received, in the form of a letter, an official invitation from the South Vietnam government to participate in the war...
View ArticleMaking Sense (or Nonsense) of Political Polling
If you are as concerned with Australian politics as I am then no doubt you take an interest in the polls. What do they tell us? Are they legitimate? How do pollsters arrive at their conclusions? What...
View ArticleA Week is a Long Time in Politics
If ever a week in politics supported a headline it was the week that Gough Whitlam died. In the main the death of this undeniably charismatic, but gifted man was met with sadness by both supporter and...
View ArticleA Most Immoral Act
In a lifelong experience of following politics I have, until now, never witnessed children being horse traded, and senators being blackmailed, for the passing of legislation. In this case to...
View Article“The Rise and Fall of Australia”
Book Review by John Lord Nick Bryant Is a BBC correspondent and author who often appears on Q&A and The Drum. I made the dreadful mistake of reading some reviews of this book (that conflicted with...
View ArticleTony Abbott: Begging For His Job. Round 1.
Something truly remarkable is happening in Australian Politics. Unprecedented in my memory. An Australian Prime Minister is being given the chance to transform from bastard to saint. Or somewhere...
View ArticleIf it’s about Politics I’m not interested.
Just how many people are interested in politics and what influence does the media have on our thinking. I have always been of the view that Australians exercise their right to vote in our democracy...
View ArticleChoosing to Lie About Indigenous Australia: Why Tony Abbott Should Do More...
Tony Abbott has, yet again, demonstrated his appalling lack of knowledge on even the most basic aspects of our society with comments made last week that claimed the problems Aboriginal people face are...
View ArticleIs Gina Rinehart a Terrorist Under Our Own Laws?
New French anti-terror actions could be a window into our own governments trajectory on the issue. The French interior minister on Monday ordered that five websites be blocked completely under the...
View ArticleSnowy Hydro, Neoliberalism and the NSW Government: The Ugly Visage of...
Australia’s energy policy is subject to regulatory and fiscal influence from all three levels of government, however only the State and Federal levels determine policy for primary industries such as...
View ArticleIt’s a Taxing Time for ”All But the Rich”
Never in the history of this nation have corporations, rich individuals, and the Government that supports them, been so openly brazen. The Australian Tax system is absolutely riddled with rorts for...
View ArticleA Month in Politics April
Wednesday April 1 1. I’m not in the habit of calling people liars. It is not my nature to do so. However I have no hesitation in calling our Prime Minister a perverted one who in parliament last week...
View ArticleMy 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 sexist and political overreach of the...
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