In March, after the self-absorbed, venal nature of Barnaby Joyce became plain for all to see, I argued that like Joyce, the National Party has sold out to big coal,…
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A month and a half ago, I wrote a piece about the suppression of dissent, including the government’s pretence at having whistleblower protections, exemplified by the prosecution of Bernard Collaery…
The Abbott Coalition government instituted a Royal Commissions into the Home Insulation Program, a program begun by the Rudd Labor government as part of its response to the Global Financial…
I think it’s a Prime Minister’s duty; one of the primary duties of a Prime Minister is to protect the country from prejudice. Howard was happy to let the racism virus out. And it’s like a flu virus, you never get it back. You know, when someone at the top of the system…you see Bob before me, Malcolm Fraser before him, Gough Whitlam, John Gorton – none of us would play around with this issue. None. The only one to do it was a little guy from Bennelong.
The ‘Kill Bill’ stories keep coming in the Murdoch ‘newspapers’; there must be an election looming. The latest is about something the government said had stopped. Given the usual secrecy…
When Scott Morrison and Tony Abbott said they had stopped the boats, they were lying, as you would expect. All they had stopped was the flow of information regarding boat…
New South Wales Government MP Daryl Maguire is in deep poo. This is because of revelations to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the state anti-corruption body. In an investigation…
Pat Conroy is a federal Labor politician who represents the electorate of Shortland, in the outer suburbs of Newcastle and much of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. One of the…
Michael Pascoe has shown that Prime Minister Turnbull has now given up any pretence of being concerned about more than just remaining in the PM’s office. This has been demonstrated…