Tag: australian politics
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It’s Journalism wot lost it
I follow politics keenly but come the election being called, the only coverage consists of polls, gaffes and photo opportunities. Every. Single. Time. Certainly the last week’s coverage has been the most boring ever: let’s talk about the gaffe again and again and again. Although this week we won’t talk about the other gaffe. Oh…
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Green is the new Red!
Apparently, being concerned about the environment and supporting Same Sex Marriage is red. Communist red that is! Wow! Or rephrased as Green is the new Red! Really? Let’s look at the history then… Caring for the environment was never a priority for any communist state. Name one. Certainly not China. Or the Soviet Union. Both…
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When the Rainbow Opened My Eyes
My niece got engaged yesterday to her partner. Now my brother has two daughters instead of one. I’m joyful for both as they’ve found that love is love is love. But it took me a while to understand… For I must have lived in a sexual vacuum. Growing up I never even knew what homosexuality…
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Political Insults? Been There Heard That!
As a writer who was in a verbally abusive relationship for many years, the current political climate is rather familiar. Funnily enough my main reaction to both is the same. It’s not being offended at being insulted. After the initial six weeks (in a relationship) or fifty years (in politics), I become bored… Socialist Communist…
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Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Exist
Freedom of speech belongs to the loud and aggressive. Freedom of speech is their cacophony of voices shouting all at once. Freedom of speech is their smothering words that silences all other. Freedom of speech is the preserve of the crowd that excludes all but them. Freedom of speech is not our freedom extended to the…
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National Insecurity, Citizenship and Exile
As posted on Gumption-inc… With less than eighteen months remaining in its first term, (or less according to some commentators), the Australian Government has been determined to show that it is tough on national security. One of those measures is legislating to strip citizenship of anyone who has joined the fighting in Syria and Iraq. In…
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Reducing Penalty Rates works against the Laws of Supply and Demand
Jenna Price in her article on penalty rates nails it with those fatal words… price signal. Penalty rates are a price signal. That signal signifies a scarce supply of labour. That scarcity occurs as not everyone is able or willing, regardless of what the Prime Minister says, of working weekends, public holidays, night-shift or 24…
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Pyne’s Folly
When Alaska was purchased, it was almost universally condemned as Seward’s folly. Funnily enough the action strengthened both Canada and the United States of America whilst weakening Russia and England. But the same cannot be said of Christopher Pyne‘s folly. To recap, to encourage the Senate to pass the latest version of his contentious university funding…