Archive for: Julia Gillard

Prominent Liberal says Gillard should be kicked to death

Prominent Liberal says Gillard should be kicked to death

Share  Prominent Liberal urges Australians to kick Julia Gillard to death, but the media don’t seem to think it’s a story. Managing editor David Donovan reports on Australia’s propagandistic press. Grahame Morris Yesterday...

 

Notes from underground Part 2

Notes from underground Part 2

Share  In which the Last Person in Australia Approving of Prime Minister Gillard is Exposed by the Media and, Rejected by his Family, Takes up Residence in a Hole on the Banks of the Yarra, where he Contemplates Opinion Polls and his...

 

The curious timing of the staffer against the Speaker

The curious timing of the staffer against the Speaker

Share  Benjamin Thomas Jones writes about the allegations against Parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper: “With Julia Gillard’s minority government already beleaguered by scandals, leadership uncertainty and consistently poor polling,...

 

Notes from undergound

Notes from undergound

Share  In which the Last Person in Australia Approving of Prime Minister Gillard is Exposed by the Media and, Rejected by his Family, Takes up Residence in a Hole on the Banks of the Yarra, where he Contemplates Opinion Polls and his...

 

Greens will change without Brown

Greens will change without Brown

Share  Dr Bob Brown shocked Australia by resigning as leader of the Australian Greens today without warning. Benjamin Thomas Jones says the change in leadership could either make or break Australia’s third party. It is not often in...

 

British monarchy steps into PR overdrive

British monarchy steps into PR overdrive

Share  The British establishment has stepped into PR overdrive in a desperate attempt to hang on to the last tattered remnants of Empire, says British republican William Gladys. Republics for Australia & Jamaica — Gillard and Miller...

 

Federal Government cuts jobs in Climate Change Department

Federal Government cuts jobs in Climate Change Department

Share  Cutting jobs in the Department of Climate Change continues the Federal Government’s half-hearted approach towards battling climate change, says Assistant Professor Robin Tennant-Wood. Last week’s announcement that one-third...

 

Iona Mineshaft’s greatest letters Vol 3

Iona Mineshaft’s greatest letters Vol 3

ShareThe final instalment of a bundle of letters written by mega-mining heiress Iona Mineshaft and found, in mysterious circumstances, by Graham Jackson. (Read Part One and Part 2.) IONA MINESHAFT’S GREATEST LETTERS VOL.3 (The Unauthorised...

 

aUStralian politics with perfect hindsight

aUStralian politics with perfect hindsight

ShareTony Backhouse looks back at the last 18 months of Australian politics with 20-20 hindsight. Julia Gillard has said much of how reforms the Rudd Government “languished”. Has everyone forgotten that every piece of legislation had to...

 

More of the wit and wisdom of Iona Mineshaft

More of the wit and wisdom of Iona Mineshaft

ShareGraham Jackson has a collection of letters written the larger than life mining heiress Iona Mineshaft to variety of public figures, living and dead, of which we published the first instalment last week. In part 2. Here she explores, amongst...

 
 
 
 

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