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Rudd should fade into obscurity

Posted On Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: ALP leadership, Gillard Government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, PM, Rudd team player, Simon Crean, Wayne Swan, Wil Wallace

Historian and ALP member Wil Wallace says the honourable thing for Kevin Rudd to do following his resignation is to fade into obscurity.

The young and the Ruddless

Posted On Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: ALPleadership, Australian PM, Benjamin Thomas Jones, Corangamite, Darren Cheeseman, Julia Gillard, Kevin, Simon Crean, Tony Abbott, Wayne Swan

Provided he receives a “fair shake of the sauce bottle in caucus”, Kevin Rudd could win back the leadership of the ALP and the country, says Benjamin Thomas Jones.

The return of Rudd to stop Abbott

Posted On Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Barry Everingham, Daniel Mannix, George Pell, Hugh Morgan, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leadership, PM, politics, Tony Abbott

Senior correspondent Barry Everingham says Rudd will lose the vote next week, but win the one following.

The Tent Embassy remains until a Treaty is sealed

Posted On Saturday, 18 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, AUS, Binnah Pownall, Canberra, Denis Walker, Indigenous Sovereignty, Jerry Prus-Butwilowicz, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Michael McMurtrie, Paul Coe, Porkbarrell Cafe, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

Binnah Pownall presents the most comprehensive summary yet seen of the Australia Day ‘Tent Embassy’ conflagration — along with the reasons why the Embassy won't be moving on any time soon.

Anti windfarm astroturfers exposed in Parliament

Posted On Friday, 17 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Energy, Environment, Independent Australia journal, Politics Tags: AEF, ANSTO, anti-windfarm activists, astroturf organisations, astroturfers, Australian Environment Foundation, Australian Landscape Guardians, Booroowa Landscape Guardians, Boorowa Landscape Guardians, Cavan, climate change, climate change sceptics, Climate Spectator, coal seam gas, Cormack Foundation, Country Guardians, CSG, Emily Wood, Esso Australia, Geoff Leventhall, Greens, Hepburn Wind, IPA, John Murphy, Jonathan Upson, Julia Gillard, Kate Redwood, Kathy Russell, Landscape Guardians, Lavoisier Group, Liberal party, Lock the Gate, Lowell Pty Ltd, Malcolm Turnbull, Michael Wooldridge, Moonie Oil Company, Moorabool council, Nina Pierpoint, North Flinders Mines Ltd, NSW Farmers Federation, NSW Government anti-windfarm policies, Paringa Mining & Exploration plc, Paul Miskelly, Peter Mitchell, Peter Seligman, renewable energy, Rupert Murdoch, Sandi Keane, Sarah Laurie, Senate Inquiry into Wind Farms, Simon Chapman, Steve Fielding, Taralga Guardians, Tea Party, Ted Baillieu, Ted Baillieu anti-windfarm, Tony Hodgson, Victorian Landscape Guardians, Waubra Foundation, Western Plains Landscape Guardians, Wind Turbine Syndrome, Yass

Independent Australia has made it to Federal Parliament, with Sandi Keane’s investigation into anti-windfarm astroturfers the Landscape Guardians and the Waubra Foundation being used as the basis of an exposé by John Murphy MP in the House of Representatives earlier this week.

The terminal Julia Gillard

Posted On Tuesday, 14 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: 2007 election campaign, ALP, Barry Everingham, Four Corners, George Pell, Gillard and Rudd, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Labor leadership, Prime Ministership, Tony Abbott

After last night's ABC Four Corners' revelations, Julia Gillard should resign without delay, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham.

Last call for Julia Gillard

Posted On Saturday, 04 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor leader, Prime Minister of Australia, Simon Crean, Tess Lawrence

It's time for Julia Gillard to go, says contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence.

A bold new vision for Australia

Posted On Friday, 03 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Politics, Satire Tags: Abbott policies, Ben Pobije, Burma, Julia Gillard, Liberal party, New Matilda, taxes, Tony Abbott, vision for Australia

Tony Abbott set out his “bold new vision” for a “stronger Australia” at the National Press Club this week — a predictable magic pudding speech in which he spoke vaguely about "small Government" and cutting taxes, yet at the same time included vague promises about "doing more". The most insightful and hilarious review of this address was produced by razor-sharp satirist Ben Pobije in New Matilda. Here’s a short extract:

Australian racism is alive and flourishing

Posted On Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, New Australians Tags: Australian racism, Charlie Teo, Colonialism, convicts, Cronulla riots, David Donovan, Edmund Burke, Immigrants, Indigenous dispossession, intolerance, Julia Gillard, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott

The reaction to the Tent Embassy incident shows that Australian racism and intolerance is alive and well; managing editor David Donovan says it’s time for Australians to grow up.