I’ve been at a loss recently as to what I wanted to say or to write. It wasn’t, in this case, a matter of being too busy or there being a lack of things on which to comment [or rant about as is often the case]. In a way it was quite the opposite, so…
Originally posted on helen meikle's scribblefest:
However much designer rhetoric you may use to package it, elitism by any other name still smells like stinkweed to most Australians, and the smell after last week’s budget was overpowering. Perhaps this attitude is a legacy of our early DNA: the indigenous people that nobody respected or…
Just when you thought Tony Abbott couldn’t sink any lower in public estimation he just goes ahead and dives face first into public disgrace. Mr Abbott, presumably not realizing he was on camera, winked at Jon Faine, the host of 774 ABC, during a live phone call, when a pensioner called Gloria mentions she needed…
Beneath all that pointless nature in the Queensland countryside, lies sweet, sweet coal seam gas. As the sunshine state braces itself for an explosion in coal seam gas wells, satirical rabble-rousers A Rational Fear send in the bulldozers to unearth all the dirt on the mining movement that’s going radioactive. The Guardian
Well it seems we’re back on the merry-go-round of the Abbott governments desire to strip Australia of its natural resources and at the same time open us to legal action from international corporations who are blocked from proceeding in certain areas due to a state’s legislative policies. “The decision by Prime Minister Abbott to reverse…
Originally posted on That Owl:
No matter how it happened or who is to blame, the sad reality is that we as a nation have been inflicted with a self-serving excuse for a government. The country has completely unravelled under the Abbott Government and until now, we’ve felt utterly powerless against his will. Based on…
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