April 13, 2019 0 The Labor Party are dragging their heels on climate change and the Coalition are dragging their knuckles. Richard Di Natale
April 12, 2019 0 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 11, 2019 0 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 7, 2019 0 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
March 17, 2019 0 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
January 18, 2019 0 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
December 31, 2018 0 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 27, 2018 0 A handout to the rich is called an 'incentive' but an incentive to the poor is called a 'handout'. James Melville
December 23, 2018 0 The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Henry Havelock Ellis
December 16, 2018 0 As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal
