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Australian Politics

The Somyurek scandal is just the latest example of how the end game of our politics has increasingly become the accumulation and exercise of power and influence rather than the delivery of good government in our national interest - politics is attracting the wrong sort of people.

John Hewson

News is the rich paying the rich to tell the middle class the poor are to blame.

Anonymous

The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion; it’s insider trading, obscene CEO pay, wage theft from ordinary workers, Wall Street’s continued gambling addiction, corporate payoffs to friendly politicians, and the billionaire takeover of our democracy.

Robert Reich

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful, to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives, secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

Eugene V. Debs