Scott Morrison has recklessly committed Australia to having hypersonic missiles. Let’s speak plainly. The issue is too serious for this. It commits Australia to be used to serve as a launching pad for military aggression against other nations. This is an escalation in preparations for war that will kill Australians and many others, should it come. Continue reading Morrison’s purchase of hypersonic missiles is a crime against Australia and the world
Hours before Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivers this year’s budget, the big issue is the rising cost of living beginning to push down the standard of living for millions of Australians. Instead of addressing this, the Morrison government is set on a $26 billion pork barrelling spree to shore up its fracturing political base in marginal seats. Continue reading The budget should solve rising cost of living and not pork barrel for votes
“The arguable point of law is that these fake, these phoney assurances [with #Assange‘s extradition] were put outside a court of law.”
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The weekend’s election in South Australia saw the Liberal government fall and Labor take its place. Dissatisfaction over the handling of Covid, and the state health and ambulance services were factors. Keeping Scott Morrison and his ministers out of the lection campaign was an admission that the are on the nose and a relevant factor. Continue reading What is really behind the Liberal’s loss in South Australia
Continue reading The floods prove volunteers can only do so much when the government goes awol
This year’s federal budget is coming up, and this time the details are being kept hidden from the public. In a budget just before an election there are usually sound bites promising a few handouts. Not up to now. Continue reading Signals that the coming budget will be a con are now out
The Brotherhood of St Laurence’s twelfth Life Chances report has come out and what it reveals comes as no real surprise. Australians born after 1990 are on average worse off than those who were born before this time. Continue reading New generation is worse off than those born before
Though the 1920’s and 1930’s fascism grew to a scourge in Europe and other places. Its financiers were the super-rich in Europe and the United States. One example was Henry Ford, who is said to have kept a picture of the German Fuhrer on his desk. Adolf Hitler was reputed to have a picture of Henry Ford on his desk. Ford didn’t stop here. He used his newspaper The Independent to spread Nazi views and was active in the American Nazi movement. He wasn’t alone. Continue reading Ukraine is showing elements of forgetting the lessons of history
So, the Australian economy is doing well and grew by 3.4 percent in the last quarter? This is what the official figures just handed down are telling us. If it were true, it would be welcome news. The trouble is it isn’t true. Continue reading Fairy tales about Australia’s economic performance hide the truth
