Some months ago, when Cory Bernardi jumped the Liberal ship and formed the Australian Conservatives, several Liberal MPs were scathing in their criticism of Bernardi. One, Michael Sukkar, said that…
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Waleed Aly opines that the cat-fight between Abbott and Turnbull is not solely about personality, as was the Gillard-Rudd barney, but is at least partly about ideas1. Insofar as Abbott…
Tony Abbott, in an audio recording of a speech he gave at assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar’s local Liberal Party branch meeting, bemoaned the “second-best, taxing and spending” budget that the…
Barack Obama was intelligent, highly educated, literate, erudite, personable, witty and seemed to have a happy family. The fact that he was also black led some to believe that, with…
I recently spoke to a right wing person who, of course, was a big Trump fan. Let’s call the person FW. After a succession of mild abuse, we got onto…
I and some others bumped into a moon-landing denier today, and I was impressed with a Facebook reply by Chris Ward. This is taken and slightly modified from that post….
The Avid Reader Bookshop in Brisbane was trolled by people, when the bookshop shared a Facebook post from Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford announcing she had been contracted to write…
Often in the newspaper you will see it stated that some scientific theory has been proven. That is impossible. Scientific theories cannot be proven, only disproven or shown to be…
Conservatives and libertarians often moan about the ‘nanny state’ when it impinges on something they would like to do; smoke indoors, drink to excess, ride bikes without a helmet, driving…
