Australian Politics

Let’s not hear any more moral lecturing from so-called conservatives. When the test came in the US (but here too) a clear choice between institutions and chaos, democracy and their own system-wrecking advantage, most either actively cheered, or stayed silent. Authority gone.

Mark Kenny

January 9, 2021

Morrison's holidays is when he does nothing in a different location.

Strolling rabbi of no fixed address

January 8, 2021

First or last?

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Last August, I published an article detailing the lie Prime Minister Scott Morrison uttered about the Covid-19 vaccine plan. He said that he had an agreement with AstraZeneca PLC to…

January 8, 2021

Not so sneaky Lyle Shelton

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In previous articles on this site, I have demonstrated Lyle Shelton’s disingenuousness1,2. However, his latest effort takes the cake. On Twitter he posted a few photographs, one of himself, another…

January 4, 2021

PM's anthem, verse 3:
I'm s'posed to be accountable
But I don’t give a toss
Rupert still supports me
and Albo's a dead loss
Funding cuts for the auditor
and that pesky ABC
I don't accept the premise
of our democracy.
In joyful strains then let me sing
No-one can question me.

Simon Rosenberg

January 1, 2021

Loss of face worse than loss of lives?

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The bizarre behaviour of the New South Wales government in dealing with the recent outbreak of Covid-19, which started in the northern beaches and has spread to several other places,…

December 31, 2020

Corruption galore 7

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When I first started compiling all these instances of corruption, I thought that the rate at which I came across them would decline, and it has to a slight extent,…

December 28, 2020

Weird that Scott Morrison has consistently basked in NSW’s successes during the pandemic but now is nowhere to be seen as soon as the going gets tough.

Matt Burke

December 19, 2020

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Victor Hugo

December 13, 2020

Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison

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When the federal Coalition was elected to government in 2013, they took a great deal of glee in repealing the very effective Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). It was in…

December 12, 2020

Let’s not hear any more moral lecturing from so-called conservatives. When the test came in the US (but here too) a clear choice between institutions and chaos, democracy and their own system-wrecking advantage, most either actively cheered, or stayed silent. Authority gone.

Morrison's holidays is when he does nothing in a different location.

First or last?

Not so sneaky Lyle Shelton

PM's anthem, verse 3: I'm s'posed to be accountable But I don’t give a toss Rupert still supports me and Albo's a dead loss Funding cuts for the auditor and that pesky ABC I don't accept the premise of our democracy. In joyful strains then let me sing No-one can question me.

Loss of face worse than loss of lives?

Corruption galore 7

Weird that Scott Morrison has consistently basked in NSW’s successes during the pandemic but now is nowhere to be seen as soon as the going gets tough.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison

PM's anthem, verse 3:
I'm s'posed to be accountable
But I don’t give a toss
Rupert still supports me
and Albo's a dead loss
Funding cuts for the auditor
and that pesky ABC
I don't accept the premise
of our democracy.
In joyful strains then let me sing
No-one can question me.