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If the budget hasn’t sent you to sleep yet, take two of these (they’re podcasts, so you can lie down as well):
Peter Anderson – Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Bob Brown – Leader of the Australian Greens
Ed Coper – Campaigns Co-ordinator for GetUp
Alex Mallie – President of CPA Australia
Richard […] Continue Reading…
In a rare show of cross party charity Southport Labor MP Peter Lawlor urged the National Party to be careful with their due diligence on the Queensland Liberals. Lawlor’s immediate concern was the $1 million debt that the Liberal Party carries, which he thinks was amassed losing the last […] Continue Reading…
Courtesy of our friends at MPTV we have some audio of the treasurer’s speech available.
That’s the traditional Beattie, Carr, Bracks, Rann, Gallup budgets that have been slowly strangling their respective states, giving rise to the famous blame game, where they try to compensate for the revenue they’ve squandered by putting the bite on the feds.
Like many Liberal voters I used to vote Liberal […] Continue Reading…
Just as well the Queensland National Party is well-heeled. Knowledgeable insiders say that the Queensland Liberal Party has a debt of $1 million which will need to be extinguished as part of any amalgamation. So dire is the situation that it is said that the party has instructed debt […] Continue Reading…
Liberal Party interim president Gary Spence has been accused of dishonestly misrepresenting the views of members of the party’s state council, of fabrication and flagrant misrepresentation.
One of the mysteries of reports of last Friday’s Liberal Party State Council was that only one person was said to have voted against […] Continue Reading…
Lawrence Springborg has been spruiking a new conservative party for most of this year, but when we get to look at his bride, she’s actually not new, she’s 63 years old and calls herself the Liberal Party. She will have to change her name to Liberal National Party, but […] Continue Reading…
I made a few guesses in this blog post as to how Boris Johnson beat Red Ken Livingstone. The skeptical part of the blogosphere, as in Global Warming skeptics, have thrown their vaunted caution to the winds and embraced the Johnson win as a defeat for global warming […] Continue Reading…
Laser pointers may be endangering more things than aeroplanes landing at Australia’s airports. Brendan Nelson might be another casualty with a jittery laser pointer in his hands showing just how nervous he was when addressing the Brisbane Club yesterday. This, coupled to the fact he uncharacteristically read the speech, […] Continue Reading…
Nearly every day some bright spark suggests in the letters to the editor that technology will save the world. One day the focus is on carbon capture, the next on GM foods. Desalinisation and nuclear energy are other scientific saviours.
The reality is: only democracy can save the world. The […] Continue Reading…