In an online chat, a Trump voter (a trumpette) stated that America had the best voting system in the world (I think the word ‘electoral’ was beyond him). I laughed…
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Malcolm Turnbull let the cat out of the bag that he had personally donated $1.75 million to the Liberal Party for the 2016 Federal Election. Normally, this donation would not…
One of the most recent politicians to be caught with their snout in the taxpayer-funded trough is Sussan Ley (whose nicknames now include Sussan Ley-by and Sussan the Suss), who,…
You will often hear the Federal Government say that the increasing health care costs are unsustainable, but this has been shown to be overstating the rate of increase. The Abbott…
The Abbott Federal Government replaced the ‘carbon tax’ of the previous government with the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). This fund essentially uses a tender process to reduce carbon dioxide emissions….
A few days ago, from the U.S. Department of Defense twitter account, came the following tweet: “Social media postings sometimes provide an important window into a person’s #mentalhealth. Know what…
The term ‘trickle-down’ economics started as a joke by American comedian Will Rogers who was poking fun at President Herbert Hoover’s Depression recovery efforts, when he stated that the “money…