Televised debates between party leaders has been with us for some time now. The fact that they mean little in the broader scheme of things is, apparently,… Read more “The Turnbull/Shorten Debate Experience”

The National Press Club Treasurers’ Debate held today was one where the average voter, having watched it, would have come away feeling the wrong man was in… Read more “Scoring the Treasurers’ Debate”

We are now well into the second week of the election campaign and it would seem the Coalition is starting to feel the heat. Their first wake-up… Read more “Flagship Flailing, Coalition Failing”

The agony of choice; tax cuts to companies and those earning above $80,000 a year, or providing a better education for a young man’s daughters. Tax cuts… Read more “That’s not how the system works.”

If you thought the end of Tony Abbott’s reign as Prime Minister would see the end of the three word slogan, think again. The latest one, ‘jobs… Read more “‘Jobs and Growth’ Mantra to Haunt Morrison from now on.”

Three important articles have been published this month that highlight the declining state of the Australian economy. Despite the rhetoric from leading government members, things are not… Read more “A Collective of Idiots”

For much of the last five years the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Madame Christine Lagarde, has been preaching austerity and savagely “bullying governments to run… Read more “The Smokescreen of Ignorance”

Moody’s, you might remember was one of the agencies that admitted to the US Congress (at the height of the GFC) that they took money from firms… Read more “Scott Morrison, like Moody’s, doesn’t have a Clue”

Section 912A of the Corporations Act states that a financial services licensee, such as a bank, must “do all things necessary to ensure that the financial services… Read more “Why we need a Royal Commission into Banks”

Politics permalink John Kelly https://johnbkelly.wordpress.com   When Malcolm Turnbull made his pitch to the media the day he successfully challenged Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership,… Read more “Can Shorten Win?”