The Redcliffe byelection provides the Newman government with an opportunity. Like most oppositions who win government, particularly with a large majority, they have been having trouble justifying themselves. At the last election electors’ preoccupation was with ridding themselves of the Bligh government. They didn’t give a lot of thought to what the LNP would do […]

A few months ago I visited Prague, home of Kafka. He was a disturbed author, and after my visit I started to understand why. On top of many centuries of conflict, Communism imposed a wicked peace. The dramatic points of Prague’s long history include the 3 (some say 4) defenestrations spread over several centuries. If […]

An email from Zeg Cartoonist came in (which I have reproduced in full below) along with this cartoon. G’day,  It’s been most amusing and enlightening for me to watch the usual suspects in the mainstream media and surprisingly some not so usual ones, literally crying and bleating because the new Federal Coalition Govt. has decided […]

There’s the gag about the economist for whom reality was just a special case of his model, and then there’s the ALP reaction to the reality of Tony Abbott. I find it bizarre, and dishonest, both to themselves and us, that because Abbott refuses to conform to the “cut to the bone” Tony that the […]

Mike Kelly talking to Waleed Ali tonight on Radio National provides a complete picture of why Labor isn’t coming back any time soon. Kelly, a military officer recruited from the army by the ALP specifically to run for parliament, was a star candidate, a minister, and the member for the bell wether seat of Eden […]