Tag: government

How unaffordable was my valley (or how green was my smashed avo)
I feel for the Gen Y and the Millennials, I really do. I know that I often mock them for all their bad traits and habits (my friends and readers …
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Malcolm in the Middle
Federal Budgets generally give the government of the day a poll bounce, even if only a momentary one. Some fall flat and register barely a twitch. The Turnbull/Morrison Budget for …
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Surplus, somewhere over the rainbow
As St Augustine has once prayed, “God, give me chastity, but not yet.” And so it is with budget surplus, the Godot of Australian federal politics, last apparently seen over …
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Nothing budget about the Budget
Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich our vocabulary. We are witnessing at the moment another interesting …
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Peta PM? Oh please
“The most intriguing news of the weekend was the report that Peta Credlin is being touted as a possible future Liberal Party MP. Why stop there? Why not Peta for …
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What are the Australian values?
On everyone’s favourite Buzzfeed impersonator, News.com.au, Malcolm Farr has a go at the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for his stumbling answer to the question during the press conference about the …
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No longer Turkish Delight
President Erdogan sometime ago (in)famously (and approvingly) compared the constitutional “reforms” he desired to those of Hitler’s circa 1933-4. Thanks to a small majority of Turkish voters, he now has …
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Canberra – don’t mend it, end it
Once in a while, regular like a clockwork, a well-meaning proposal pops up to decentralise public service by shifting the Canberra bureaucrats to the regions, so that they can be …
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Get your government out of my engagement
If you visited this planet as a guest from outer space and quickly scanned Australian media and social media, you would probably get the idea that the question of same-sex …
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For God and Empire 2.0
Why argue about a policy on its merits when instead you can call it emotive names and thus shut down the discussion? The latest example from the Anglosphere: Australian Trade …
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Vault 7 and the death of privacy
I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (twelve years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from Iraq” series, some kind souls suggested I was on the …
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Ciobo for PM!
Via Andrew Bolt, some interesting movement in the odds for the next federal leader of the Liberal Party and the next Prime Minister: I’ve been on record for a long …
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Out like Flynn
I’m on record being consistently concerned by and opposed to Donald Trump and people in his circles playing footsie with Putin and being soft on Russia. As such, I can’t …
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Here come Coryservatives?
Reports this morning all over the news and social media that over the next twenty four hours – before the first Coalition joint party room meeting of the year on …
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