The Treasurer brought one of his children’s Christmas presents in to Parliament house yesterday. He seemed to think that he was going to scare the federal opposition with it. I…
The elevation of Trump to the US presidency and the decline of primary votes for the two major parties in Australia, are symptomatic of the disenchantment, not with democracy per…
You know the government are getting desperate when even Scott Morrison suggests that the push for a free vote in parliament is ‘fake news’. When Morrison says something is fake,…
Now Tony Abbott has warned Turnbull not to break faith with the Australian people to allow a free vote on same sex marriage. This is because a group of Coalition…
Malcolm Turnbull let the cat out of the bag that he had personally donated $1.75 million to the Liberal Party for the 2016 Federal Election. Normally, this donation would not…
One of the most recent politicians to be caught with their snout in the taxpayer-funded trough is Sussan Ley (whose nicknames now include Sussan Ley-by and Sussan the Suss), who,…
You will often hear the Federal Government say that the increasing health care costs are unsustainable, but this has been shown to be overstating the rate of increase. The Abbott…
The Abbott Federal Government replaced the ‘carbon tax’ of the previous government with the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). This fund essentially uses a tender process to reduce carbon dioxide emissions….