The newly amended Stage 3 tax cuts are making headlines at the moment. Political point scoring about broken promises has been less effective than...
Category: Politics
Social Housing
This is how it works in the political system. Whenever money has been spent on things like social housing and Indigenous affairs in the past it...
Why Do Men Feel The Need To Kill?
I was thinking about the current state of world affairs, with wars in Ukraine and The Middle East raging. Casting my mind back to the recent global...
Education Matters: Are We Baking In Regressive Tendencies?
The Jesuits used to say, “Give me a child until seven and I will show you the man.” I would answer, not if she was a girl. Of course, Christianity...
Sleepwalking Into An Autocratic Nightmare
Many of us are struggling to make ends meet in the current inflationary times. Everything is expensive, including the essentials like food, energy,...
What American Conservatives Truly Mean & Represent
I think it is useful to spell out what the stance of conservative leaders are in the current climate. A lot of people never bother to really think...
The World According To Peter Dutton
The world according to Peter Dutton goes something like this. White is right. White is bright. White deserves a better life. The Leader of the...
Alleged Rapist Back At It Again
Alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann, the man at the centre of the Brittany Higgins debacle in Canberra, has been charged with rape in another case in...
Napoleon As Role Model For Aspiring Autocrats
Many people ignore history at their own peril. What happened a relatively long time ago is seen as distant and irrelevant to the concerns of now. In...
The Myth Of Individual Responsibility
One of the tenets of right wing political belief is that the individual is ultimately responsible. The myth of individual responsibility means that...