Category: Politics

“…events in the 21st century have changed the way rights, protections and security intersect.
Maybe a new Labor Government should not try to deal with religion in isolation, but open up the whole rights and protections issue…”

Crispin Hull on Recession, Interest Rates and Recession

“We approach yet another Australia Day – the national day that most nations celebrate their identity and/or birth – with continued human confusion and muddle about both. Geographically we are certain about what Australia is. Humanly we are not.”

“When the Government loses trust in government, small wonder that most of the population does likewise…”

Douglas Shire Council will be concreting a narrow section of the Bloomfield Track which will require a temporary closure between Luana Creek through to the Zig Zag Road turn-off.

“The pandemic has, unfortunately, caused our fearful political leaders to shy away from the very bold steps needed to deal with the political fault lines that that very pandemic has exposed.”

” It looks like “let ‘er rip” is the new policy given the exponentially rising infection rates. It comes with various ministers in the Morrison-Joyce Government using the phrase “living with Covid”. The trouble is that the “let ‘er rip” policy comes with a more threatening phrase: “Dying with Covid…”

” Australia should build up its diplomatic armoury; remain vocal on breaches of human rights and trade rules; join with other democratic nations to undermine the vast government censorship in China; and join other countries in dealing with the one national-security risk we should fear above all others: climate change. It should also patiently wait for the demise of Xi….”

“As a vocal advocate for climate action, social justice and youth justice, I will hold the government accountable to secure a better future for all of Leichhardt – not just the big end of town.”

“Warren Entsch has been the LNP member for Leichhardt for 22 years. In all of that time he has become very stable – or at least he says so on his billboards. But, stable does not mean able!”

Since 2013 the Coalition has engaged in a litany of economic mismanagement and misuse of public money. Let’s look at that, item by item.