Now that I have calmed down, I feel I can write this without launching into expletives. It is easy to understand a sociopath like Peter Dutton using the dog-whistle to…
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In March, after the self-absorbed, venal nature of Barnaby Joyce became plain for all to see, I argued that like Joyce, the National Party has sold out to big coal,…
The Abbott Coalition government instituted a Royal Commissions into the Home Insulation Program, a program begun by the Rudd Labor government as part of its response to the Global Financial…
I think it’s a Prime Minister’s duty; one of the primary duties of a Prime Minister is to protect the country from prejudice. Howard was happy to let the racism virus out. And it’s like a flu virus, you never get it back. You know, when someone at the top of the system…you see Bob before me, Malcolm Fraser before him, Gough Whitlam, John Gorton – none of us would play around with this issue. None. The only one to do it was a little guy from Bennelong.
New South Wales Government MP Daryl Maguire is in deep poo. This is because of revelations to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the state anti-corruption body. In an investigation…
What’s under attack at the moment isn’t individual facts… although they are under attack…it’s the very notion of truth that’s under attack. When a politician lies in the morning and then contradicts his lie with another lie in the afternoon, what they’re saying to you, finally, is that no truth matters, and truth itself is unimportant. And if truth doesn’t matter, all we are left with is opinion. And if all we’re left with is opinion, the opinion that will prevail is the opinion of the most powerful and the most wealthy. And then we have gone to a very dark place.
The Fair Work Commission decided in March 2017 to decrease Sunday penalty rates in the hospitality, fast food, retail and pharmacy industries to be the same as those for Saturday1….
Young comedian Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered by a 19-year-old male in a Carlton North park as she was walking home from a gig in Melbourne on June 13th….
In a previous post, I related the fact that the New South Wales government is considering a proposal to permit corporations to sue individuals. As I stated, this would have…