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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...

 

Would Abbott bring back WorkChoices?

Would Abbott bring back WorkChoices?

Tweet Tony Abbott says WorkChoices is “dead, buried and cremated”, but his new IR policy leaves the door open for radical workplace relations changes, writes Luke Williams. JUST BEFORE the 2007 Federal election, I was sitting in...

 

Jacksonville 49: Time inside

Jacksonville 49: Time inside

Tweet Peter Wicks issues a wedding related correction and reports on the latest news about Craig Thomson and Kathy Jackson. Peter Wicks speaks to Kathy Jackson last year. IT SEEMS I need to put out a correction to something I have mentioned...

 

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...

 

Update on the Ashbygate Trust

Update on the Ashbygate Trust

Tweet Geezlouise has just sent an update to contributors to the Ashbygate Trust, including details of its new website and recent investigation activity. Click on the image to catch up on IA’s full Ashbygate investigation. Dear Ashbygate...

 

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...

 

Tony Abbott and the sin of omission

Tony Abbott and the sin of omission

Tweet Tony Abbott was criticised by what he said in his speech on forced adoptions, but it was what he didn’t say that most revealed his character, says Gordon Aplin. On 21 March 2013, Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered an eloquent...

 

The United Australia Bikies Party and the Fother Muckers

The United Australia Bikies Party and the Fother Muckers

Tweet Australia’s bikie gangs should start a political party, says Tess Lawrence, since they are everywhere and already run the country. by wannabe bikie moll and contributing-editor-at-large Tess Lawrence IF HELLS ANGELS Australia Inc...

 

Out to sea in a chaff bag

Out to sea in a chaff bag

Tweet Mass media induced group-think seems to suggest the Government is diabolical and Julia Gillard a witch — but that doesn’t mean it’s true, writes Letitia McQuade. Why we love to hate Julia Gillard We human beings are curious lot....

 

How Clive Palmer sold Peter Slipper a PUP

How Clive Palmer sold Peter Slipper a PUP

Tweet In the last day or so, Clive Palmer’s party signed up Peter Slipper, kicked him out and changed its name to PUP. WTF is going on? Ross Jones tells the tale. WHAT A FARCE. The whole Clive show looks for all the world like a naked grab...

 
 
 
 

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