Tony Abbott is playing with electoral fire with his latest foray outside the doors of the parliament to join what the organisers described as a grassroots protest against the Government's carbon tax but seemed more like a gathering of the looniest of Australia's looney right. The opposition leader seems to have no compunction whatsoever to be seen … [Read more...] about #16 SUPPING WITH THE DEVIL
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#7 UNCONSCIONABLE DECEPTION AND EMISSIONS OF HOT AIR
So Australia is to have a carbon tax from July 1st 2012, despite assurances from Prime Minister Julia Gillard before the last election that such a tax would not be imposed. The Australian electorate is used to our politicians behaving with craven self interest. But there can be few more cynical instances of a Prime Minister resorting to such a … [Read more...] about #7 UNCONSCIONABLE DECEPTION AND EMISSIONS OF HOT AIR
#5 THE MADNESS BLOCKING THE PUGILIST’S KNOCKOUT PUNCH
Someone we know who taught Tony Abbott at Sydney's Saint Ignatius College has a wonderful story that tells us much about the man who thinks he was robbed of the chance to lead Australia at the last election and certainly intends to do so after the next. The year was 1975 and Tony Abbott was in Year 12, a confident all-rounder and the cherished … [Read more...] about #5 THE MADNESS BLOCKING THE PUGILIST’S KNOCKOUT PUNCH
# 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may well be someone totally unconcerned with personal hygiene, as some of those who've been in close proximity to him maintain. It's neither here nor there for those of us keen to keep our distance from this strangely unsettling character, with his Mogadon manner and haughty self-righteousness. Yet there's something … [Read more...] about # 2. THE REAL STENCH AROUND JULIAN ASSANGE