Budgets, Bishops, Brawls And Water Boys
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Tagged: australian politics
How To End The Deficit Without Screwing The Poor
Mark Twain said that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. So, too, for New…More
Abbott Delivers A Billionaires' Bonus
To paraphrase Winston Churchill — never in the field of budget conflict has so much been…More
Hockey Ramps Up Fear Around Disability Support
Perhaps this is all a dark satire, I thought hopefully as Joe Hockey delivered last…More
Hockey's Mean Budget Is Full Of Contradictions
If you want to get a feeling for the mess of contradictions, meanness, trickiness and…More
The Rich And The Rhetoric Won The Day
Joe Hockey’s much-leaked first budget promised wholesale surgery to the Australian body politic. It has…More
Highlights Of Hockey's 2014 Budget
Joe Hockey’s first budget is strong on the rhetoric of sacrifice. “It is time for…More
Pyne's University Changes Will Punish The Bush
Armed to the teeth with recommendations from the Commission of Audit and the Kemp-Norton review,…More
Abbott's Targeted Attack On Ordinary Australia
The Commission of Audit has laid bare the neoliberal agenda driving the Abbott government’s assault…More
The Furphies Behind Pyne's Class War
If the Commission of Audit was serious about attempting to save money from the education…More