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
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
Some people say that ridiculing Pauline Hanson for her lack of ability with the English language is classism. It isn't. It is thickism. I don't want thick people in parliament making decisions on the future of this nation.
Original quote
March 29, 2019
There was a girl named McQueen,
Who was stupid, entitled and mean.
When she went on QandA,
She made us all wonder:
Was she dumber than Prudence McSween?
Fiona Katauskas
March 26, 2019
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
Noam Chomsky
March 22, 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
If you’re a political journalist who has regular contact with people in power, and your analysis is always aligned with prevailing orthodoxy, then you’re not really a journalist, you’re a courtier.
