If this mob [Malcolm Turnbull's government] were a car, you'd have to clean bugs off the rear windshield, they are going backwards that fast.
Paul Keating
January 27, 2018
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive, because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
Tony Benn
January 25, 2018
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
Victor J. Stenger
December 31, 2017
Whenever you meet someone who uses the words Keynes or Keynesian as a swear word - or as synonyms for socialist - know that their adherence to neoliberal dogma far exceeds their understanding of mainstream economics.
Ross Gittins
December 29, 2017
The billionaires in business tell the millionaires in politics that the rest of us are greedy.
Anonymous
December 22, 2017
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
November 30, 2017
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal
November 30, 2017
Dutton wears Turnbull as a glove puppet while Abbott throws his voice.
Paul Keating
November 8, 2017
The ‘trickle-down’ theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.
William Blum
November 8, 2017
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed.