The protestor of school age sported a placard featuring a distorted caricature of Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison: “Scomo was liking it hot.” A glorious spring day, and a gathering was already fussing and buzzing outside the Victorian State Library and students were striking. The placard image was one that toasted both ways – looking…
By Denis Bright The latest August 2019 employment data shows the Australian labor market in a transitional stage. The federal treasury is awash with funds from the senate’s rejection of tax reductions for larger companies. Commodity export prices are largely buoyant. However, the federal LNP is firmly committed to delivery of a balanced budget for…
“I extend a special welcome to Australia’s former prime minister. It is in part due to his tough policy that we regard Australia as a model country. We especially respect it for the brave, direct and Anglo-Saxon consistency which it has shown on migration and defence of the Australian nation.” These words of Hungarian Prime…
The final results are in for the fiscal year 2018/19. The government’s May Budget prediction of a $4 billion deficit has come in officially at a $641 million deficit. Well, ring the bells, set off the firecrackers, send a telegram to the Queen. We almost made it. It’s as near to a surplus as you…
For years, we’ve been warned about the left turning us into a nanny state and trying to control everything. We’ve heard how the Communists want to control us and how the conservatives are the ones who believe in small government. “We are giving you tax cuts,” say the Liberals, “because we believe that people are…
By RosemaryJ36 This report was posted on Facebook today, being an article about Nationals Senator Sam McMahon and her disdain for renewable energy. It included the following: “I call upon my colleagues in this government to join me in examining a variety of means of collection of massive quantities of water delivered by our monsoonal…
By Robert Wood The attacks on responsible freedom of expression are constant and ongoing. Readers might have seen my earlier piece for The AIMN, ‘The right to free speech is also a responsibility’. That piece outlined the news of a single day when a Channel 9 fundraiser was held for the Liberal Party, when there…
The pigeon flapped in desperation, moving across Melbourne’s lavish Capitol Theatre in fits and starts. It was more alarmed than anything else at the address being given by former Australian football (soccer to some) player Craig Foster. Foster has been beating the drum on one particular message for some time now: that sports can change…
By Denis Bright Prospects of Israel’s Return to the Political Centre Under a Blue White Coalition Government Headed by Benny Gantz Despite the strong showing by Benny Gantz’s centrist Blue and White Party, conventional opinion in Israel just prior to polling day still favoured a continuing coalition between Likud and the far-right religious parties with…
By Dr George Venturini On 17 March 2018 Professor Hocking issued a news release about Justice Griffiths’ 16 March decision in the Federal Court action ‘Jennifer Hocking v. Director-General, National Archives of Australia’, in favour of the National Archives. Justice Griffiths had ruled that the ‘Palace letters’ between the Queen and the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, at…