Morrison can’t even see what’s holding Australia back. Climate damage is holding Australia back, already costing some $18 billion a year, according to a recent estimate. Poverty and homelessness are holding Australia back. The utter mess the Coalition made of the NBN is holding Australia back. The lack of an energy policy is holding Australia back. Corruption – from Helloworld to watergate – is holding Australia back. The government’s self-obsessed time-wasting culture wars – such as the debates over section 18C and Safe Schools, which exercise a tiny group on the fringes but are completely irrelevant or downright hurtful to the rest of the country – are holding Australia back. The disgrace of a thousand desperate people sitting on Manus and Nauru after six years with no hope in sight is holding Australia back. More than anything, what is holding Australia back is an execrable federal government that has no answers to anything because it’s too busy waging war on itself: the Liberals and Nationals are already skirmishing and the election’s not even done.
The combover, Maurice Newman, climate change denier and intimate of Tony Abbott, seems to be suspicious of Four Corners’ efforts to understand the Zali Steggall campaign to unseat Tony Abbott,…
Sky News, in the persons of Rowan Dean, Rita Panahi and James Morrow, had a guest on their show, whose name is David Burton and who was said to be…
The International Journalists’ Network published an article by David Brewer entitled ‘Impartiality in journalism’. It begins with: “being impartial means not being prejudiced towards or against any particular side, and…
I recently received a letter from Australian Capital Territory Senator Zed Seselja and his ‘Liberal Team’. The letter has a blue stripe across the top with the Liberal Party logo…
Terry McCrann usually writes on business topics for Murdoch’s The Australian, but he has written a simply silly piece on carbon dioxide emissions, and to let you know where he…
Scott Morrison keeps saying: when you vote for Bill Shorten, you get Bill Shorten. But, you actually get Bill Shorten, Tanya Plibersek, Penny Wong, Chris Bowen, Anthony Albanese, Tony Burke, Jim Chalmers, Michelle Rowland and a multitude of experienced, intelligent, reasonable, dedicated people. Possibly with a side of Richard di Natale. What he is very careful to not say is, when you vote for Scott Morrison, you get Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, Tony Abbott, Kevin Andrews, Michaelia Cash, Barnaby Joyce, George Christensen, David Littleproud and a bunch of other self-serving numbskulls with little pride, honour or nous, and a generous serving of Clive Palmer, Cory Bernardi and Pauline Hanson.
It is difficult to understand how Tony Abbott’s mind works unless you have a higher degree in psychology. It was the late Bob Ellis who suggested that Abbott, as an…