Morrison can’t even see what’s holding Australia back. Climate damage is holding Australia back, already costing some $18 billion a year, according to a recent estimate. Poverty and homelessness are holding Australia back. The utter mess the Coalition made of the NBN is holding Australia back. The lack of an energy policy is holding Australia back. Corruption – from Helloworld to watergate – is holding Australia back. The government’s self-obsessed time-wasting culture wars – such as the debates over section 18C and Safe Schools, which exercise a tiny group on the fringes but are completely irrelevant or downright hurtful to the rest of the country – are holding Australia back. The disgrace of a thousand desperate people sitting on Manus and Nauru after six years with no hope in sight is holding Australia back. More than anything, what is holding Australia back is an execrable federal government that has no answers to anything because it’s too busy waging war on itself: the Liberals and Nationals are already skirmishing and the election’s not even done.
Paddy Manning
May 17, 2019
Australia’s water buybacks scheme was designed to help drought-stricken farmers and our vital ecosystems, not to deliver a large profit for investors in a Caribbean tax haven.
Michael West
April 28, 2019
The Labor Party are dragging their heels on climate change and the Coalition are dragging their knuckles.
Richard Di Natale
April 13, 2019
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S. Truman
April 12, 2019
If only Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Mazda, BMW, Hyundai, Ford, General Motors, Fiat, Volkswagen, etc had asked SloMo and the Liberals they could have saved billions on this mad folly of investing in electric vehicle development.
Mike Carlton
April 11, 2019
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
April 7, 2019
If you are a political journalist, and you simply report what a politician says without any contextual analysis, you are not a journalist, you are a stenographer.
Blot Report
March 17, 2019
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighbourhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.
Wendell Berry
January 18, 2019
In the long run, for Australia, the muppet masters like Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Andrew Bolt and other idiots on Sky News have been of benefit, in that they have now driven the Coalition government so far down the rabbit-hole of right-wing nut-jobbery, that initially they will be unelectable and will eventually disappear, and Australia will finally be able to enter the 21st century.
Blot Report
December 31, 2018
A handout to the rich is called an 'incentive' but an incentive to the poor is called a 'handout'.
