When the Turnbull government won the last election by just one seat it was generally felt that they would probably survive the next three years with the… Read more “Can the Government Survive?”

For those of us who have been pushing to have Tony Abbott produce his renunciation certificate (his RN form), to show he is no longer a British… Read more “Turnbull looking both ways”

If there is one single fact that proves the government’s “jobs and growth” mantra is a deliberate and misleading lie, it is this: Mass unemployment occurs when there… Read more “The Government is betraying our right to work”

Whether you believe it or not, an economic tsunami is coming and if you think we will survive the damage and the fallout, as we did the… Read more “Memo to Mortgagors…get your house in order”

Something will happen this week that will alert us to the reality of this government’s failures. Despite all their rhetoric and their pathetic attempts to demonstrate their… Read more “The Myth of the Balanced Budget”

Despite overly optimistic, but what should be called laughable forecasts in the budget, wage growth in Australia is now the lowest it has been since the mid-1990s.… Read more “Incompetence and Expediency”

We will know pretty soon, probably next week, how Scott Morrison’s fiscal statement (aka the budget) has gone down with the electorate. Trying to judge the mood… Read more “A Budget Primed to Backfire”

As a political commentator, I probably shouldn’t admit that I’ve given up on Q&A. I came to the conclusion late last year that it had lost its… Read more “The Budget…an ongoing lie”

Finally something of interest came forth from the mouths of our good Prime Minister and Treasurer this week.  They began talking about good and bad debt. It… Read more “Good and Bad Debt from Dumb and Dumber”