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Tony Abbott’s problem with the truth
Image courtesy of smh.com.au People lie for a number of reasons: sometimes it is accidental that through the person’s own ignorance, statements are made which gives the appearance of being...
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Enough is enough.
I am ashamed. I am ashamed of the appalling treatment handed out to our first female Prime Minister. I am ashamed of the inhumane treatment of traumatised people seeking sanctuary in our country....
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Abbott is Murdoch’s dream come true
Abbott and Murdoch (image courtesy of smh.com.au) The Australian’s Christian Kerr was the one called up to last bucket the Labor Party’s leader. There is nothing unusual about this but I was struck by...
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If You Think Our Children are Morons. Think Again.
Photo by John Lord Why are so many voters so reluctant to vote? The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) released figures after the last election that revealed 20 per cent of eligible voters did not...
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Freedom to speak badly: one rule for protestors, another for Andrew Bolt?
Andrew Bolt’s racial vilification case and the government’s subsequent hasty threat to repeal section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has placed ‘freedom of speech’ at the forefront of political...
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Greens fringe dwellers
“The Greens vote is complex”, writes Douglas Evans in this analysis of not only where their votes come from, but likely to be found in the future. A recent AIMN article by Sir Scotch Mistery included...
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Which way to look?
Ralph Blewitt. Photo: Herald Sun It is perhaps not surprising that the Royal Commission into union corruption is to begin the day before the budget is brought down. In a fortuitous coincidence, Ralph...
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Law & Order, Mars and Why Tony Abbott is Right To Put Science Under The...
“I have a great idea for reducing the crime rate!” “What is it?” “Well, when someone is caught breaking the law, rather than wasting a lot of money on a trial and jailing them – which is also very...
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How about some other political witch hunts, Mr Abbott?
Malcolm Turnbull and John Howard (image from nws.com.au) Tony Abbott promised to do many things if the LNP won the 2013 election. One of these, which was no doubt driven by populism and not policy...
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Pave paradise, put up a parking lot
When Julia Gillard left office we had a carbon price in place, a burgeoning renewable energy industry, and the respect of the world as leaders in taking action on climate change. The system had not...
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How can we stop Larry Pickering?
If a lie goes unanswered it will eventually become accepted as the truth. A ‘friend’ sent me a couple of emails – amid his barrage of right wing propaganda – citing the words of wisdom from serial...
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A letter to the Editor, from Morrie Moneyweather.
I didn’t think I would ever do this again because the last time I wrote none of you ungratefull bastards appreciated the wisdom of my words. All yous could do was have a go at me gramma. Even after me...
View Article13 of the greatest speeches (video) of all time
From the Charlie Chaplin movie The Great Dictator, 1940. Howard Beale delivering his “mad as hell” speech in Network (1976) – You’ve got to get mad! at the media for dumbing us down. The famous speech...
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Abbott is Murdoch’s dream come true
Abbott and Murdoch (image courtesy of smh.com.au) The Australian’s Christian Kerr was the one called up to last bucket the Labor Party’s leader. There is nothing unusual about this but I was struck by...
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The same but different . . .
When Turnbull ‘knifed’ Abbott a week ago after publically shaming Abbott’s terrible government on national television while announcing his intent-to-knife, I wondered how the mainstream media would...
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Am I not pretty enough?
When I recently saw a photograph of Julie Bishop’s boyfriend David Panton sitting next to her in the official delegates section on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, I wondered what the...
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Squeaky Clean
Putting aside the fact that Julia Gillard was treated as a back-stabbing-murderess after she replaced Kevin Rudd as PM. Putting aside that she was labelled ‘the illegitimate PM’ even after she went...
View ArticleI hope Rupert is happy
There was a time not so long ago when Australia’s future looked bright. In 2008, Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generation and COAG agreed to a definitive strategy to close the gap in Indigenous...
View ArticleLabor’s Scare Campaign…
“This morning, we’ll be talking to prominent Coalition supporter, Mr Con Server-Tiff. Good morning.” “Now, if I can just correct you, I’m not a Coalition supporter, I’m an independent commentator.”...
View ArticleMs Gillard’s sickening hypocrisy laid bare
It was with disbelief, and finally contempt, that I watched excerpts of the Al Jazeera interview with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the topic of her government’s treatment of waterborne asylum...
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