BLAMMM!!! and the starting gun goes off. Finally! The race we have all been waiting for over the past three years is now on.
Apr 102022
Oct 282019
Andrew Laming, the member for the federal seat of Bowman, is today ‘bumping’ this article from the Redlands Bulletin in a bid to raise his profile. Akin to the little boy who stuck a digit into a pie pulling out a piece of fruit and claiming “what a good boy am I!”
Oct 112019
an approach that evaluates theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application. Richard Marles, Labor’s Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Party, has come out stating that Labor needs to be ‘pragmatic’ in it’s approach to policy development between now and the next federal election. “be prepared to ignore and avoid and look past the manufactured parliamentary tests, the stunts and the wedge politics the Liberals spend so much of their time constructing for us”. “We know that sometimes that will hurt in the short term, sometimes it will sting our passionate supporters who might prefer a […]
Jun 042019
The RBA did what it telegraphed last week and dropped the cash rate by 25 basis points. Government is now using that rate cut as propaganda, claiming a duel income family on $120k/annum before tax, with a $400k mortgage, are $3,000/annum better off.
Feb 262018
Let me, reader, draw your attention to a very important, and glossed over aspect of this current debate being sponsored by Corporate Australia.
Feb 102018
I don’t accept Katharine Murphy’s premise of not reporting on this sorry business, simply because she couldn’t verify the yarn. She shoots herself in the journalistic foot in at least two points in her “don’t-shoot-me-I’m-a-journalist” piece. “I’ve known Joyce, and his former wife Natalie, for ages. We all grew up in the same part of the world.” yeh….uh huh….and??? “The feedback I got in the time I had available to make inquiries was people weren’t speaking on the record.” In the time she had available??!! If that’s not a cop out, I’m not here and I’m not writing this. Let’s […]
Sep 152016
A vexed question, and after the past couple of days where One Nation Senators, Roberts and Hanson, stood in the Red chamber to air their particularly personal gripes, we who think much more broadly need to ask ourselves, just how should we handle such mindsets.
Jul 052016
Over the weekend just gone, we’ve seen an abject failure of the political system as we all thought we understood it.
Jul 032016
Federal Election 2016. What a huge letdown on the night, no result, no victory/concession speeches.
Nov 022015
It’s on again!