I wrote a few articles about the effective takeover by the religious of the Liberal Party branches in Victoria1,2, Western Australia2,3, Queensland2 and federally4, and how this will eventually lead to…
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In early January, 2021, I ranted about the lie Morrison told us “Australians will be among the first in the world to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, if it proves successful.”…
It is sometimes difficult to remember that the idiotic member of Pauline Hanson’s One Notion Party, Malcolm Roberts is still in the Australian Senate. He has been the source of…
Australia is being left behind by the rest of the world on this, you know, all of the other major markets, Europe, the UK, the US, we’re seeing transitions in India and China, everyone is starting to move towards a renewable future because that’s where the jobs are, that’s where the money is, and it makes market sense. Every single big company or investor who has pulled out of fossil fuel hasn’t done it out of the goodness of their heart, they’ve done it because there’s no money in it any more. We know that, but in Australia, we’re just stuck in this quagmire of having the same argument we were having ten years ago, where we just live in this imaginary world where fossil fuels are going to continue forever and it doesn’t matter what we do because, you know, we’re not going to have that much impact on what’s happening in terms of the temperature rising across the world. And it’s just absolute balderdash, it’s not a reality we can afford to live in any more, but neither of our political parties, our major ones, are brave enough to tell people that.
There is little doubt that if this Coalition Government had been in power when it was discovered that the Earth was a sphere, it would have held on to the flat Earth theory, fervently ridiculing all evidence to the contrary. This is because, in all likelihood, it would already have invested in exorbitantly priced tours to find the ends of the planet and then provided tax breaks for the shonky tour operators. [The Independent Australia, May 20, 2021]
On the final pages of the 2020-2021 budget papers is a table showing that, in real terms, the Whitlam government’s net debt peaked at a little over $1000 for every…
Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently visited Williamtown Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base, about 26km north of Newcastle, and a photo was put up on his Instagram account showing him…
About a decade ago then leader of the opposition, the incomparably inept Tony Abbott pointed at the Labor government’s budget deficits in dealing with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and…