Welfare Reform: Turnbull is No Menzies
Turnbull’s claim that the Turnbull Liberal Party is a party embracing Menzies Liberalism, is a self-delusional fallacy. In terms of progressive welfare reform, the Menzies Liberal is dead. The...
View ArticleSuffer in Ya Jocks! Turnbull Scoffs at Disaster Funding
A natural disaster has hit Rockhampton every two years since 2008. When a Prime Minister thinks natural disasters are not a national issue, he needs to go. The Prime Minister has made another attempt...
View ArticleThe Magnificent NBN, Victoria’s “Right-To-Kill Bill” And It’s Just A Flesh...
Writing in “The Herald-Sun” (and no, that’s not really an oxymoron) in May last year, Terry McCrann lauded the government’s NBN success: “RIGHT now, over one million Australians are actually signed...
View ArticleWith rapidly evaporating respect Mr Turnbull, that’s crap
Good poker players learn how to read signs from their opponents about when they are bluffing. For Malcolm Turnbull, one signal is when he says “as you know”. And out it came on Monday night on Q&A...
View ArticleMalcolm And The Art Of The Selfie…
Now sometimes I’m a bit slow… I mention this because what I’m about to write may seem terribly obvious to some of you and you’ll be going, “Yeah, so what!” But I feel that I must post, in a spirit of...
View ArticleBankers, Tankers, Anchors And The Liberal Party…
One of the things that I’ve learned over the years, is that being honest is usually you’re best option. Of course, like most people, I find myself in situations where I’ve… ah, shall we say, bent the...
View ArticleSeldom has a government looked more ridiculous. More compromised....
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever, wrote George Orwell, foreseeing, our Border Protection policy, in the news this week as Australian War Memorial...
View ArticleScott Morrison Tells Us That The Bell Hasn’t Rung…
It was strangely ironic when Scottie told us last Saturday, “we will stand up for what we believe until the bell rings – the bell hasn’t rung.” It was ironic because I’d been thinking that if the...
View ArticleBloody Fair Dinkum Power, Where The Hell Are You?
To me, the great thing that Scott Morrison had going for him as Treasurer was his capacity to be boring. Let’s be real, one only has to use the words “fiscal”, “nominal expenditure”, “Gross Domestic...
View ArticleWhen will Morrison and his government be held to account?
“With everything that’s going on at the moment we need to be in the tent and we need to know what’s going on – and we are,” Scott Morrison spruiks his star role as a fly on the tent wall, a vital bit...
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