I was listening to Tony Abbott being interviewed by Leigh Sales last week on the 7.30 report, when I finally realised the real, core problem with him. In that interview, he said: there are many specific policy commitments out there to abolish carbon tax, abolish the mining tax, reduce red …
It’s election year. Like it or not, this year Australia gets to go to the polls federally, and we have a choice between Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard. Tony Abbott has abysmal “preferred PM” ratings, but the ALP has struggled in the polls consistently under the minority government thanks to …
In The Age, October 12, 2012, Michelle Grattan wrote a fairly extraordinary piece entitled, “Misogyny war has no winner“. Michelle’s rather creative title at The Age is “Political editor”. Thankfully, almost all of her pieces are titled “Opinion” these days, because to label them as anything else would be fanciful …
Over the last 18 months, there’s been some very disappointing turns in the political debate in Australia, but one which remains an ongoing puzzle is the way Fairfax has seemingly lurched to the right of the political discourse rather than being centrist. Take today’s (online) front page of The Age, …
Today the media made much brouhaha over a speech given by Tony Abbott to the Institute of Public Affairs relating to freedom of speech in Australia. Tony, you see, wants to remove section 18C of the Racial Discrimination act, which, to quote Tony: “Prohibits statements that ‘offend, insult, humiliate or …
So Tony Abbott has already made a series of gaff ridden statements about the how Work Choices won’t be coming back if the liberals win the election. He seems to have settled for a qualifier that they won’t attempt to change the legislation in their first term. Do I believe …
The news sites are awash with stories about the leadership spill coming at 9am this morning in Australia. If even half of the media is correct, Julia Gillard will become Australia’s first female prime minister, and Kevin Rudd will become the first Labor prime minister to ever be kicked out …
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