Analysing conservative reactions to losing elections
Nothing says “bad sports” like conservative politicians losing elections. They’re not only bad winners, but they’re also terribly, terribly bad losers. Here’s the way conservatives work: If they win by...
View ArticleNo Tony, you and your cronies will be wrong
Tonight NSW Labor will likely see the biggest landslide against it in Australian political history. The population of the state has overwhelmingly decided the election is a moot point: after years of...
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Disillusioned Labor
I don’t know exactly how you’d describe my political leanings, other than to say they’re definitely on the left. And as the years have gone on, they’ve become more left leaning. I’m more of a green...
View ArticleLabor Right says "Screw representation"
In The Age: Labor’s Right slams gay reform, the right leaning faction of the Labor party finally reveals that it doesn’t really care about representing the people, just some people – presumably the...
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Them and Us
“It’s your fault Tony Abbott got into power. You didn’t vote Labor!” I’ve had this levelled at me a few times recently. I didn’t vote for Tony Abbott and his über-conservative party of troglodytes. I...
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The shame of it all
Australia: The Lucky Country. Or so the saying goes. We have universal healthcare. Sure, it’s not perfect, but since its introduction in 1975, it’s evolved and grown. Our economy is large enough that...
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Pet Seminary
I’ve been asked a few times in the last few days by friends overseas, “OK, what the **** just happened in Australia?” It has been a bit of a tumultuous week. There was this guy who gets paid lots of...
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Australians to face 2016 with lingering fear of political comebacks
Many in-the-pub political pundits had for several years proclaimed that the only way the Australian people would see just how bad Tony Abbott would be as Prime Minister would be to actually experience...
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Operation GrowOld Instituted To Remove Children From Detention
Reacting angrily to claims they are wilfully imprisoning children within hellish detention centres situated in poverty stricken countries where they are subject to rape, physical abuse, anguish and...
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