When the long campaign for same-sex marriage was on, leader of the religious right wing Australian Conservatives, Cory Bernardi, maintained till he was blue in the face, that businesses should…
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You will often hear anti-vaccination people complain about the dangers of vaccinations. Some still believe the bogus assertion by Andrew Wakefield that Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccinations cause autism, despite this being…
Recently, Jean Tirole, Nobel Laureate in Economics, was interviewed regarding the poor reputation of economists1, and indicated that it seems to be mostly because of their inability to predict the…
Ross Gittins argues against decreasing company tax rate using economic arguments1, but unfortunately, economics has little to do with it. This is clear from the fact that the tax office…
The Federal Government has a propensity for hiding ‘bad’ news, or releasing it under cover of Christmas or another such event that will make it certain that few people are…
The laughably incompetent efforts by Turnbull and others in the Liberal Party to blame renewables for the South Australian (SA) blackouts of September 2016 have been covered here before1. The…
Despite the Victorian election being up to 11 months away, the campaign has already started, with the conservative dogwhistle being sounded by the appalling Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, as…
Andrew Giles, the Labor member for Scullin has written a piece for the Guardian entitled ‘As politicians we must lift our game and respond to the frustrations of Australians’1. In…
It is not as if Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull needed to open his mouth to change feet, but it seems he has. After being hammered with facts related to the…
It seems that the cooperation between the Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police, announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in June of 20171 has been an abject failure. The…
