Society

Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.

Jim Hightower

June 1, 2019

Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

Jacinda Ardern

June 1, 2019

I thought we had compulsory voting

By adminAustralian Politics, SocietyNo Comments

Australia was one of the first nation states to give (white) women the vote (in 1902), nearly a decade after New Zealand did so, in 18931, and we often pride…

May 25, 2019

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

David Frum

May 22, 2019

I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

Mike Funnell

May 21, 2019

Persecution of Christians

By adminAustralian Politics, Society3 Comments

Greg Sheridan, one of the religious nutters at Murdoch’s The Australian ‘newspaper’, has written an opinion piece entitled ‘Hands up for your faith’ with the subtitle ‘With Christianity under siege,…

April 28, 2019

Shorten’s perceived unpopularity

By adminAustralian Politics, Society7 Comments

It is ironic that an article attempting to explain Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten’s perceived unpopularity has appeared in a Newscorp media outlet1, when it is Newscorp which has…

April 14, 2019

I have never agreed that you can produce a policy outcome by being cruel to people. It’s an insult to our ethos where we try to be as mentally cruel as tyrants are, to keep other people out. We’re better than this; most Australians are better than this.

Thomas Keneally

April 5, 2019

Education is dangerous – every educated person is a future enemy.

Hermann Goering

April 2, 2019

It’s all a conspiracy!

By adminAustralian Politics, SocietyOne Comment

Now I have heard everything! The monumentally stupid Pauline Hanson has raised the possibility of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre being a put-up job organised by ‘the government’ solely to…

March 30, 2019

Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.

Nobody wants to live in a country where, despite a strong economy, families are homeless, where our environment is being rapidly degraded and people with mental health issues do not receive the support they need.

I thought we had compulsory voting

If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

I love a timid country A land of scare campaigns Where mindless bogan slogans Just overtake our brains The stunted, short horizons Of those who will not see Who, presented with alternatives Think only: me, me, me. [apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]

Persecution of Christians

Shorten’s perceived unpopularity

I have never agreed that you can produce a policy outcome by being cruel to people. It’s an insult to our ethos where we try to be as mentally cruel as tyrants are, to keep other people out. We’re better than this; most Australians are better than this.

Education is dangerous – every educated person is a future enemy.

It’s all a conspiracy!

I love a timid country
A land of scare campaigns
Where mindless bogan slogans
Just overtake our brains
The stunted, short horizons
Of those who will not see
Who, presented with alternatives
Think only: me, me, me.

[apologies to Dorothea Mackellar]