July 19, 2020 0 Covid19 has exposed the lie that free markets can deliver healthcare for all, the fiction that unpaid care work isn't work, the delusion that we live in a post-racist world. We are all floating on the same sea, but some are in superyachts & others clinging to drifting debris. António Guterres
March 16, 2020 1 If the battle cry of our government’s response to the global financial crisis was “go early, go hard, go households”, this government’s approach to the current crisis seems to be “go late, go half-measures, and go ... well ... go to Hillsong”. For a decade we have been accused of having gone too far in our efforts to avoid the GFC. When we look back on the decisions taken over the last month, they will be seen (as with the bushfires) as the mark of a complacent and negligent government. Kevin Rudd
January 14, 2020 2 [Morrison] has now been revealed as a dangerous incompetent, an opportunist populist combining policy vacuity with a reckless opportunism and a political tin ear. Mungo McCallum
December 1, 2019 0 Glorified underachieving, proclaiming falsehoods as truths, and the derision of actual knowledge are banes on our society. The world is made objectively worse by every anti-science element present within it. Ethan Siegel
November 21, 2019 0 Have you noticed if you rob a bank you go to jail, if a bank robs you they get a bonus. Paul Bongiorno
November 1, 2019 0 Rejig By admin | Uncategorized | 4 Comments Dear readers, you may have noticed that the BlotReport has been a bit sluggish over recent weeks. I suspect this is in part because of my verbosity, in that I… Read More
September 25, 2019 0 Politics is the art of convincing people to forget the lesser of two evils is also evil. Edward Snowden
June 17, 2019 1 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
May 17, 2019 0 Morrison can’t even see what’s holding Australia back. Climate damage is holding Australia back, already costing some $18 billion a year, according to a recent estimate. Poverty and homelessness are holding Australia back. The utter mess the Coalition made of the NBN is holding Australia back. The lack of an energy policy is holding Australia back. Corruption – from Helloworld to watergate – is holding Australia back. The government’s self-obsessed time-wasting culture wars – such as the debates over section 18C and Safe Schools, which exercise a tiny group on the fringes but are completely irrelevant or downright hurtful to the rest of the country – are holding Australia back. The disgrace of a thousand desperate people sitting on Manus and Nauru after six years with no hope in sight is holding Australia back. More than anything, what is holding Australia back is an execrable federal government that has no answers to anything because it’s too busy waging war on itself: the Liberals and Nationals are already skirmishing and the election’s not even done. Paddy Manning
April 28, 2019 0 Australia’s water buybacks scheme was designed to help drought-stricken farmers and our vital ecosystems, not to deliver a large profit for investors in a Caribbean tax haven. Michael West
