October 10, 2020 0 COVID-19 has magnified the shortcomings of our failed paradigm of economy with all its imbalances, inequities and injustices. The pandemic has demonstrated a renewed demand from the citizenries of the OECD, indeed the citizens of the globe, for a new economic order. This is evident through the response to COVID-19, the burden of which fell to the State, and proved, if proof were ever required, that the State has the ability to play a leading, transformative role in crisis management and response; that the public sector has the capacity and expertise to deliver quality universal services to its citizens and do so effectively and fairly; that government can act decisively when the will is there. Yet the crisis has also shown us how so many of our citizens and their families are only ever one wage payment away from hardship; how the self-employed or workers in the so-called ‘gig’ economy lack security and are often impeded from access to basic employment rights; how private tenants in under-regulated housing markets are at the mercy of their landlords, how many designated ‘key workers’, those providing essential services, are shamefully undervalued and underpaid. Michael D. Higgins
August 29, 2020 2 Andrew Bolt + Miranda Devine + Daisy Cousens + Rowan Dean + Peter Dutton + Blair Cotterell + Lauren Southern + Rupert Murdoch + Scott Morrison = Brenton Tarrant Serkan Öztürk
August 25, 2020 0 As Trump accepts his nomination, his face heavily made up in golden make up, an unarmed black man is shot in the back seven times in front of his children. Meanwhile Americans believe they live in the 'greatest country in the world'! Elaine McKay
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
