Beaut ute, Kevvie
Here in Australia the political debate is not about the great recession, climate change or our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s all about a ute and an email. A neighbour of Kevin Rudd, our Prime...
View ArticleTurnbull waits for idiot boy to self-destruct
Evidently Phillip Adams is tweeting about Turnbull biding his time. This is a piece from something I wrote 15 months ago. Glad to see Adams and others catching up. Here is a snippet and then the link....
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Please keep Tony. Please!
Tony Abbott is Prime Minister of Australia. For now. We will know in the hours after 9 am on Monday morning (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) if the spill motion in the Liberal Party room meeting...
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Yes, it is all about the children, so bring them here
Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister in waiting, has distanced himself from Tony Abbott, the current Prime Minister, and Abbott’s trashing of Gillian Triggs, the Human Rights Commissioner. In doing so...
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Evidently the ANZACs died for free speech, except at SBS
Scott McIntyre is, or rather was, until ANZAC Day, a sports reporter at Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service. He tweeted a number of truths about war and the war porn week we have had to endure...
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Shit sandwich anyone?
Here is photographic ‘evidence’ of my view that the problem isn’t who is selling us the shit sandwich. The problem is the shit sandwich.
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Prime Ministerial deck chairs in Australia – what the hell is going on?
In the last five years the Prime Ministership in Australia has changed once because of an election and 3 times because the Party has replaced the leader. It is an interesting time line. 2010 Rudd to...
View ArticleCan Labor survive Malcolm Turnbull?
A day can be a long time in politics. The election of Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party on Monday night and his installation on Tuesday as Prime Minister has turned bourgeois politics in...
View ArticleOn retirements, renewal and cleaning out the Cabinet
Yesterday Adam Goodes announced he was retiring. Today Joe Hockey followed suit. We will miss Adam Goodes. Marise Payne is Australia’s first woman Defence Minister. I am so looking forward to some...
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The tax affairs of Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcayman Turnbull
Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has lots of money in funds in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands is a tax haven. There are two aspects to tax havens. One is low or no income tax....
View ArticleMe in the Canberra Times on the PM, tax and the Cayman Islands
This is a link to my article in The Canberra Times on Saturday 17 October 2015 about the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Cayman Islands’ investments. The PM is no ordinary taxpayer, which is...
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Close down Australia’s cities to save Abyan?
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull have sent Abyan, the Somali woman raped on Nauru and now 14 weeks pregnant, back to the concentration camp there without any...
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Tax, Turnbull and the Cayman Islands again
Nicholas Stuart says in relation to Malcolm Turnbull’s Cayman Island investments that the PM certainly appears to comply with the tax rules. (‘Let’s hear what Labor has in mind with tax evasion’ The...
View ArticleMe in Independent Australia on Turnbull, tax and transparency
Me in Independent Australia on Turnbull, tax and transparency. PM Turnbull says he’s keen on transparency but shields the rich from transparency on tax, shrouds our gulags in secrecy about atrocities...
View ArticleMe in Independent Australia on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on...
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on transparency: Shielding the rich and shrouding gulags in secrecy PM Turnbull says he’s keen on transparency but shields the rich from transparency on tax,...
View ArticleIs there a brig big enough for Briggs?
A few days before Christmas, Jamie Briggs resigned as a Minister in the Turnbull government. His behaviour towards a female departmental employee while on a Ministerial trip to Hong Kong was described...
View ArticlePrime Minister Turnbull: If you really respect women, sack Dutton now
Peter Dutton is, to use his own words, more or less, a mad fucking wanker. In supporting his political mate Jamie Briggs over Briggs’s sacking from the ministry for serious matters related to a public...
View ArticleWhy did Turnbull dump the proposed GST increase?
It was of course going to be the magic pudding for big business and the States and Territories – an extra $33 billion a year flowing into Commonwealth coffers as a result of increasing the GST from...
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Could Labor really win the 2016 election?
ABC News: Nick Haggarty I was as stunned as the no doubt shell-shocked Turnbull-Joyce Government backbench. The latest Newspoll, released on Monday, shows the Labor Opposition and the Liberal National...
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For Greens-union-Labor unity in the fight against Turnbull
This is a statement by socialist group Solidarity on 15 March 2016 on the need for unity in the fight against Turnbull Escalate the fight against ABCC and anti-union laws on the streets and in...
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