Finding yet another way to stick the shiv into Turnbull, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, has called for the sacking of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and replacement…
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On Anzac Day, 2018, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull opened the Sir John Monash Centre, which is set on the grounds of the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery and adjacent to the Australian…
In the United States the Republicans and to a lesser extent the Democrats have attempted to rig elections by gerrymandering district boundaries1. That is difficult to do in Australia because…
Out of her depth Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer appeared on the Sunday political television programme ‘Insiders’ where she was interviewed by veteran journalist Barrie Cassidy. The…
Chief economic mouthpiece of the Federal Government, Treasurer Scott Morrison has rejected an Australia Institute suggestion that taxes should be raised to address inequality and ensure continued prosperity, describing this…
The Banking Royal Commission has uncovered some almost inconceivably disgusting practices by the big four banks (NAB, ANZ, CommBank, Westpac) and AMP. If some of these had not been uncovered…
A proposal that the Victorian Liberal Party’s state council was asked to debate a motion calling for the law to be changed to ensure doctors “can offer counselling out of…
After all, we have had routine forays into populist extremism from the mid 1990s with the likes of Hansonism without it ever threatening our democracy. Our politics may be dreadful, a black comedy pregnant with collapse, its actors exhausted, without imagination or courage or principle, solely obsessed with pillaging the tawdry jewels of office and fleeing into distant sinecures as ambassadors or high commissioners, or with paid up Chinese board posts, while outside the city burns.
The leader of the Greens, Richard Di Natale has stated that cannabis (marijuana) should be legalised for personal use (it is currently legal for medical use only). It will be…
Malcolm Turnbull’s government now has to share the gold medal for unpopularity with its predecessor, the Abbott hilarity. The government is getting extraordinarily desperate, so that now it, and its…