Crikey reported yesterday in its subscriber only email that:
NSW Liberal leader John Brogden is ready to announce his $20 billion plan – to be called ‘Rebuild NSW’ or ‘Rebuilding NSW’, depending on who you talk to – aimed at winning the next election.
With a $20 billion wish list of […] Continue Reading…

The Four Corners site says “Cornelia Rau’s case has raised uncomfortable questions about how Australia treats people at the social margins such as the mentally ill, prisoners and asylum-seekers.”
Yes it does, but it does much more than that. It questions the assumption that the bureaucracy and the professions […] Continue Reading…

Two quite different stories in today’s Courier Mail should be embarrassing to two quite different people. Alex Gilady, IOC member for Israel, is caught in colour on the front page of the paper, sitting in an outside dining area of Brisban’e Stamford hotel talking to Judy Gosper with […] Continue Reading…

One of the most common complaints you hear from politicians is that they have been misrepresented by the media. Generally it’s whinging, but occasionally you come across the real thing. It’s insidious when the media misrepresents what public figures are saying. Not only does it give […] Continue Reading…

I never thought I would see the day when Labor members were arguing for flat rate taxation and non-means-tested welfare. But then the Voluntary Student Union debate is unusual.
The arguments for keeping compulsory student unionism appear to be that it helps poorer students by making canteen food cheaper,and […] Continue Reading…

Here we go again. It’s like a familiar school ground dust-up. You know that whenever the Queensland Nationals throw a punch, the Queensland Libs are going to walk straight into it. This morning’s Courier Mail provides yet another example with a story that the Liberals are demanding […] Continue Reading…