THE front page of today’s Adelaide Advertiser carries this headline, with accompanying colour photograph – “Travel rorts scandal engulfs Liberal MP”.
The story is carried by just about every newspaper in Australia today, but The Advertiser story could hardly be more unfavourable for the Liberal MP concerned – Trish Draper, […] Continue Reading…

The thing that I hate most about Newspoll is when you know that they know but they’re not telling. This morning’s Newspoll results are interesting, but what they leave out is even more interesting.
They appear to show that if an election were held tomorrow Labor would be […] Continue Reading…

NOWHERE is the electorate’s suspicion of, and contempt for, politicians, and politics, more pronounced than it is in regard to the “perks and privileges” of public office.
The defeat of Merri Rose in the Queensland State Election only confirmed that politicians seen to be having a good time at public […] Continue Reading…

Wars often produce pictures that become emblematic and etched in our minds long after hostilities have ceased.
While depictions of heroism and camaraderie are preferred because of the positive things they say about a people, ugly representations inform of our less salubrious qualities, regardless of whether we’re men, women, from […] Continue Reading…

I am indebted to www.crikey.com.au for drawing attention to a speech in the NSW Parliament by the Labor MP for Bankstown, Tony Stewart.
While it is very much a tongue-in-cheek effort, Mr Stewart implored the NSW Liberal Party to “take its politics back to Mosman and Vaucluse, and keep them […] Continue Reading…

One group that consistently shows up in our research as being deeply dissatisfied with both political parties is separated and divorced males paying child support. Initial reactions to the budget suggest that voters are attracted by it, according to Roy Morgan’s latest poll . This is probably an […] Continue Reading…

Einstein pictured the world with four dimensions – width, height, depth and time – producing the possibilities of going backward and forward in time, just as we go up and down in space. St Augustine reconciled freewill to predestination by envisaging a God who sat outside time and […] Continue Reading…

Last federal election was all about those Australians who had started voting One Nation in the 1998 election. It appears this federal election is all about voters who live in Western Sydney, or at least that is my tentative conclusion from last night’s budget.
There is a predictable rhythm […] Continue Reading…

Last night I decided to watch the Treasurer’s budget speech, rather than go to the Treasury website and download the documents I was interested in.
After a 30 minute rushed speech by Peter Costello, I was not much the wiser. Instead of being the “Report to the Nation on the […] Continue Reading…