A Newspoll has just come out showing that, as expected, since the election in July last year, the Coalition has continued its slide in the opinion polls in two-party preferred…
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Apart from the cold war waged by the religious in the attempt to continue to impose their beliefs on those who do not want it1, there is another war going…
Greg Jericho summarised1 a report by the IMF which shows that the assertion by neoliberal economic enthusiasts that income tax cuts pay for themselves, is abject garbage. This was originally…
According to Malcolm Turnbull, the Berejiklian government of New South Wales has completely failed to develop enough gas reserves to head off grave gas shortages and to keep power bills…
With regard to free speech, the only way Tony Abbott is consistent is in his inconsistency. Prior to the 2013 election, he originally pledged to repeal section 18C of the…
I was going to call this item ‘Brigadier Abbott’ but Abbott’s narcissism would not permit him to accept such a lowly rank, should the armed forces allow him to command…
When fresh out of university, I got a job as a geologist, and one day it was my turn to be ‘on duty’ in my organisation. This meant answering questions…
What Americans call the Great Recession of 2008, we call the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). As you would expect with a name like that, it affected the whole world. The…
Everybody with a modicum of common sense realises that this current opinion poll on the legalisation of same-sex marriage was initially designed as a way of delaying or hopefully preventing…
As Isaac Asimov said: ‘Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent’, and so it has proved to be with some dill head-butting Tony Abbott while he was in Hobart1….