There’s no case for a corporate tax cut when one in five of Australia’s top companies don’t pay it
There is no compelling evidence that giving the country’s biggest companies a tax cut sees that money passed on to workers in the form of […]
Turnbull rules out sex but the corruption is still in place
I was hoping today was going to be Barnaby-Joyce-free day but, in the current climate, that was never going to be possible. Especially when Joyce […]
The $65 billion company tax cut no-one is asking for
It has been difficult to focus on other matters in federal politics – and that’s understandable, given we’ve got the Deputy Prime Minister and leader […]
Goodbye Barnaby, your corruption is not wanted
Tonight, Barnaby Joyce is under strong pressure to resign from his position as Deputy Prime Minister, and from Parliament, after a meeting with senior National […]
Widening the gap in Indigenous affairs
Is it any surprise the 2017 Closing the Gap report, released today, shows that in four of the seven key areas, Australia is still lagging […]
Barnaby Joyce and the failure of mainstream media
Well, what a week in federal politics. Not so much about the revelations about the affairs of the Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, but the […]
Negativeland: How conservative politics destroyed Australia’s 44th Parliament
The New Politics analysis of Australia’s 44th Parliament and how conservative forces hijacked Australian politics. Eddy Jokovich, 150 pages. Released 2017 Available to purchase as […]
2016 election night and beyond
Let’s go back in time: it’s the evening of 24 November 2007, and Labor leader Kevin Rudd is making his election victory speech at Brisbane’s […]
Winning elections as easy as ABC
In a perfect world, elections should be free and fair, and based on the relative merits of the policy proposals provided by each political party, […]
Turnbull is not the man the media wants us to believe
One of my greatest bugbears is getting off trains during peak period. As you’re trying to get off the train when it arrives at your […]
The ‘stop drownings at sea mantra’ cloaks a racist agenda
Boats, boats, boats. That’s pretty much what the Liberal–National government put on offer during the 2013 election campaign. Sure, it’s a message that was carefully […]
Tony Abbott: Bad Prime Minister
My wife’s young nephew and niece visited during the Christmas school holidays and, as most children do when they’re from a different part of Australia, […]