Philosophy

Tony Abbott’s 12 biggest budget reply porkie pies

Tony Abbott’s 12 biggest budget reply porkie pies

Tweet Tony Abbott’s budget reply featured at least 20 lies — all of them overlooked by Australia’s corporate media. Alan Austin covers a dozen of Thursday’s most glaring falsehoods. Australia’s corporate media: wilfully...

 

Tony Abbott’s cut-price budget reply

Tony Abbott’s cut-price budget reply

Tweet Ross Jones presents Independent Australia’s highly affordable response to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s budget reply. (From left) Julie Bishop, pamphlet, Tony Abbott. I JUST listened to Tones’ budget reply. The first thing...

 

Swan dive: marked down Sales blows the budget

Swan dive: marked down Sales blows the budget

Tweet Budget night is the night political journalists pretend to understand economics — like Leigh Sales did when interviewing Wayne Swan on ABC 7.30 last night. Managing editor David Donovan reports. Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan and ABC...

 

How will Tony cope in gaol?

How will Tony cope in gaol?

Tweet The intriguing aspect to the Ettridge versus Abbott case heard in the Brisbane Supreme Court yesterday, says Alan Austin, is that Ettridge has a case but the media aren’t interested. David Ettridge and Tony Abbott. THERE ARE two...

 

The FREE Party and post ideological politics

The FREE Party and post ideological politics

Tweet The FREE Party offers an ethical, fact and reason based alternative to Australia’s party political duopoly, says Roger Brisbane. by Roger Brisbane WITH A Federal election looming, is democracy is alive and well, or has it been subverted...

 

Blasphemy in Morocco

Blasphemy in Morocco

Tweet If you renounce your faith in Morocco, watch out! John Turnbull tells the story of Imad Iddine Habib and his fight against the combination of church and state. Imad Iddine Habib (image courtesy Butterflies and wheels). IMAD IDDINE HABIB...

 

Labour Day is here to stay

Labour Day is here to stay

Tweet The Queensland Government is trying to kill off Labour Day by moving the public holiday from its traditional May date to October, however it will be business as usual for the Queensland union movement today – Sunday, 5 May – writes...

 

The economists’ error and the misguided push for austerity

The economists’ error and the misguided push for austerity

Tweet Two academics made a simple mistake in a study supporting austerity, but the worse error was the EU’s in backing this diabolical solution for Europe’s woes. Fabrizio Carmignani reports. (Image courtesy Think Progress.) The...

 

Our samizdat years

Our samizdat years

Tweet Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised. (Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.) CLIVE PALMER started a new party...

 

Ashbygate leave to appeal: Day 2

Ashbygate leave to appeal: Day 2

Tweet Today was day two of the latest James Ashby legal jamboree in the Federal Court in Sydney. As ever, Ross Jones was IA’s eyes in the gallery. [Read Ross Jones' report from Day 1.] The haunted faces of Mr and Mrs Slipper. EVERYONE...

 
 
 
 

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