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"A political party ...has powerful obligations to its members. It should give them a genuine say in its deliberations, free...from manipulation, organisational inhibitions and managed solutions. ..Even the Liberal Party offers its members better access [than Labor]to state conference policy deliberations and more say in the selection of parliamentary candidates" - John Button, 2002
I fear for my country (released 20 July 2010)There are no drug dealers at my door step. Doormen, salesmen and officials do not expect bribes. I do not hear my neighbours fighting through thin walls. I have clean water to drink and fresh air to breathe. I do not see people being shot in the streets. The only guns in my neighbourhood are used to cull foxes and other foreign vermin. The military is not overtaking the governments and the courts. Large masses of our population are not illiterate. I have access to the best health care in the world. All citizens are paid a minimum sum if they lose their jobs and do not have access to paid work. I live in an environment in which it is still possible to feel the wild quality of nature. There are traffic jams, ugliness and urban congestion and all the resulting problems, but we are as yet better off than other world city dwellers. I do not suffer from many of the afflictions that beset many parts of the world. Yet I fear for my country. » more 
Sweet Irene Kahn (released 9 July 2010)When the past Secretary General of Amnesty International, Irene Kahn, speaks she has an incredibly sweet, fluent, pleasant voice. But her sweet words come with a dynamic message. In her interview with Margaret Throsby yesterday she raised several profound questions for Australia. All in the most polite, round about and beautiful way. » more
The Death of a Soldier (released 7 July 2010)
John Faulkner was the Labor man who all in the party and all in the parliament respected. » more
The Power is Out in Sydney.. (released 7 July 2010)
If you want to understand where Julia Gillard’s most strident critics are, come to Sydney. A word of advice to Tony Abbott disappear... » more
Empty Rightousness – the Real Problem of Modern Labor (released 5 July 2010)
The press pack have passed judgement on Kevin. The bureaucrats so abused by the tyrant Rudd have let their views be known. It was inevitable that Julia Gillard would take over it seems. After all every Prime Minister, apart from Rudd, had been 'normal'. Kevin though, well he was off with the pixies, a one man dictator who’s only friends were God and a cat. By now you will have read the accumulated articles and even seen the circulating videos of Hitler in the bunker transposed with Ruddisms. Pardon me to take a different view. The problem was never Kevin. The problem is the modern Labor Party with its empty heart and gut. » more
UFOs and Julia Gillard (released 24 June 2010)
The Federal parliamentary caucus of the ALP are under the spell of a UFO. » more 
After Emancipation: The Pilbara, Australian Aboriginal Economic Development and the Mining Tax (released 15 June 2010)To make great economic advances for Aboriginal people means making those advances in the regions that Aboriginal people live. Unlike urbanized mainstream Australians, 2/3 of Aboriginal Australians live in regional and remote areas of the country. The current mining boom in Australia is an historic opportunity because the wealth is being generated in the heartlands of where Aboriginal people live around the country... » more 
The Luckiest of Leaders (released 4 June 2010)Or why the Australian people are turning against Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott but will not yet vote for the Greens and Democrats. » more 
Kristina: Reproba Diluculo? (released 28 May 2010)For a few years they have actually managed to banish all imagination from the world, all enthusiasm, extravagance, everything that makes life worth living. But now with our Nero (Kristina), all these things are back again. With Apologies to Lion Feuchwald, The False Nero, 1936 » more
Private Misery v Public Misery: Ken Henry, Aboriginal Australia and the Resources Tax (released 19 May 2010)
Ken Henry – King of Canberra – Head of Treasury, Canberra’s most powerful department – says the resources tax will be a winner for Aborigines. Well everything is all right. All is correct in the universe again. Jenny Macklin Minister for Indigenous Affairs says thanks Ken. There is nothing to worry about. We can all sleep peacefully in our beds, our consciences clear. Oh no! If ever there was an indication that this government and this bureaucracy just don’t understand the real problems besetting Aboriginal Australia then his statement that “some of the money raised from the proposed resources tax should be used for indigenous development” is it. What this really means is more of the same. » more |
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