General Hurley must be sacked
What’s really at issue, however, is whether the Abbott government has not put the ADF in a position that unavoidably politicises its rôle in a highly controversial domestic issue, which also has...
View ArticleNewman defeats technology with technology
The sheer stupidity and labour-intensive process of triple-handling this form, and switching between digital and manual formats, will likely eliminate any cost-savings anticipated. This is an act so...
View ArticleIs Morrow NBN’s saviour
Could it be that NBN Co’s new chief, Bill Morrow, has it right? The Australian newspaper carries a story about him knocking down the walls in the corporation’s head offices, opening up what were once...
View ArticleTurnbull doctrine on ‘the cloud’deserves to be questioned
There are echoes of the NBN management disaster evident in the continuing mantra about switching organisational spending to ‘the cloud’. Not only is the term itself meaningless, but the major vendors...
View ArticleObama ‘insults’ sting only the feckless
Looking back on US President Barack Obama’s two critiques of Australian policy during the G20 meeting in Brisbane, Australians are entitled to be a little ashamed. An embarrassing kind of shame, like...
View ArticleCredlin’s healthcare malice will backfire
The Abbott Government’s decision to persist with its doctrinaire efforts to privatise Australia’s public healthcare system is driven by malice and will cost the Coalition heavily. First, the idea that...
View ArticleRight self destructs in Queensland election
The election outcome is not yet entirely certain, and much less certain even than it seemed last night, but it is clear the LNP was rejected in a historic reversal of fortunes after just three years....
View ArticleAustralia’s traitors: Champions of neo-fedualism
How analysts, commentators, and politicians are distorting Australia’s political landscape. A personal assessment of the battle for Australia as an independent nation rather than as a minor feudal...
View ArticleSt Valentine’s Day Massacre!
Daily Bugle Newsflash: Don Aannastacio Palaszczukinelli made Capo de Tutti Capi following massacre of rival Newmanoli gang. Clark Kent reporting in Brisbronx: Striking back after less than three years,...
View ArticleNBN voodoo economics … again
Sane people can be forgiven for once more wondering what it will take before the Voodoo economics of Australian telecommunications is exorcised by state regulation to prohibit monstrous price gouging...
View ArticleDemand Schäublexit, not Grexit
Former Greek Finance Minister, Dr Yanis Varoufakis, deserves to be read as a counterpoint to largely trivialised reporting of the Euro-Greek crisis. Central to Varoufakis’s contention is the charge...
View ArticleThe original sin doctrine
Proudly sponsored by Koch Industries A recent revival in the innate-bad-guy-white-male-privilege argument makes me roll my eyes and shake my head. The way you’d expect a middle aged white man to react....
View ArticleLuminous realm of values
... every grown human is individually responsible for its decisions and actions. No excuses, no absolutions, and no choice. No fence-sitting either. Even inaction is a decision.
View ArticleWrath of Trumpenstein
Freakshow carnival barker Donald Trump has no intention of running for the presidency, and has no chance of gaining the Republican nomination. This far out, even seasoned commentators are loath to pick...
View ArticleVertigo and nausea in Canberra
Whether Malcolm Turnbull will be a better Prime Minister for Australia than the outgoing Tony Abbott is highly questionable, given the constraints of Byzantine Coalition infighting and allegiances tied...
View ArticleShorten cannot win against Turnbull
How lack of political talent and the rise of hand-held online chatter levelled Australian politics, and exposes the Labor fraud under Shorten of presenting itself as a desirable alternative to the...
View ArticleNietzsche: prophet of the sociopaths
In the past three decades I have read some – not all – of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, finding him often obscure, dense, opaque, and less meaningful than I had expected from so famous a name. Scottish...
View ArticleAll judgement flees …
Watching American electioneering coverage in mainstream American media is predictably baffling: how do people who are irrational on their best days become positively, rabidly psychotic? What is the...
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