MYEFO 2018
The government only wants you to focus on half the story...
When the prime minister started the year, a big line of his economic attack was the damage the ALP’s extra $200bn worth of tax...
Deaths inside
The staggering omission that led to Deaths Inside, the tally tracking Indigenous deaths in custody
As usual I had been following links and just generally...
Australia’s 2022 election: toxic politics and a lack of ambition
By Barry Jones
This is an edited extract of the Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture to be delivered this evening at the Accountability Round Table, Melbourne...
Politics Australian Style – Big Money Donors
Summary of the A$30,640,335 Donations reported by Donors to All parties - 2015-16
Ranked Largest 1st
Summary of the A$6,702,877.00 Donations reported by ALP - 2015-16
Ranked...
Sick of Selfish Drivers Parking in Disabled Parking Spaces?
I fume every time I see some ignorant selfish di*khead driver act as though 'god created disability parking spaces' for their myopic self centered...
Simone Biles early days
The formative years Simone Biles.
Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, the third of four siblings.Her birth mother, Shanon Biles, was...
Nine key lies told about the Voice to Parliament
“No” campaigners Kerrynne Liddle, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Michaelia Cash.
The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous...
Coalition’s changes to finance laws could be a ‘dreadful step backwards’
“What is actually the point of undoing it? One actually asks, why do you want to do this?” he said.
“Why is it in the...
Adani – Interactive cost, environmental impacts, jobs and the future
Interactive: Everything you need to know about Adani – from cost, environmental impact and jobs to its possible future
ABC News: Nationwide, a majority of voters...
Three ADF failures built the culture that enabled war crimes
Last week Justice Anthony Besanko handed down his decision in the defamation case brought by retired Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith against several Australian media organisations.
The judgement...
The Amazon is on fire – here are 5 things you...
The Amazon is on fire – here are 5 things you need to know
Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin.
Guaira...
Shorten’s victory will bring dangerous counter strikes from a desperate government
View from the Hill: Shorten's victory will bring dangerous counter strikes from a desperate government
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
An extraordinary amount of hype and...
Killing off jobs for mates is now within reach
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey
If politicians in Canberra and all the states and territories haven’t been paying close attention to the saga of the...
Time for change – the Attorney General and the AAT
Just before erstwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Saturday’s election Senator Cash shamelessly appointed a number of Liberal and government members and staffers to...
A gas market run by a cartel is no market
A gas market run by a cartel is no market
Despite what Canberra believes, the gas crisis is not a question of supply.
The problem lies...