After relating how Murdoch ‘ruperters’ were losing their minds after Labor and Centre Alliance swept the by-elections in late July1, and now that my mirth at their discomfiture has subsided,…
Channel 9 morning television personality Karl Stefanovic tweeted on August 3rd, the following: “The @GBRFoundation deserves and will use every cent in its arsenal to save the reef. I’ve no…
Under the Federal Government’s tax cuts for big business, the mining company Rio Tinto over 10 years would gain an extra $7.67 billion. That is revenue lost to the budget…
A few days ago, in response to Alexander Downer’s laughable assertion that his family are a family of “nation builders”, I used some of the views of Sir Alick Downer…
Conservatism in Australia is indeed in crisis. The reputation of its two constitutive institutions - the churches and the banks - have been greatly tarnished by royal commissions, just as another royal commission has failed to discredit the trade union movement. Climate science and the population's growing environmental awareness have also pulled the rug from under yet another pillar of conservatism: extractive industries, especially coal mining, on which the country's wealth depends.
Some time ago, I wrote a piece about how the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was being ‘dumbed down’, as part of a process which will end with the organisation being…