The Australian car making industry was a complete misnomer. There was no such thing. It was always a foreign-owned car industry. Australia was merely a postal address for the auto behemoths when they were globalising their market share and their profits. Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Mitsubishi milked the generous subsidies and tax breaks offered by…
Has anyone seen Tanya Plibersek, shadow foreign minister? If so, please report the sighting to Missing Persons and then contact the Federal ALP so they can pick her up and get her talking. The Abbott Government has committed a series of disastrous foreign relations blunders but hardly a word from Ms Plibersek. She appears to…
A gaping wound has emerged in the Liberal Party over the ABC’s reporting of the bugging of the Indonesian president, his wife and various ministers. The Abbott-Howard clique, which represents the right wing of the Liberals, is furious that Australia’s spy agencies have been caught out – redhanded. But more importantly they are incandescent that…
Australia’s spooks and cops can bug the Indonesian president, his wife and Cabinet ministers but not the phones of criminal gangs in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Why? Liberal and Labor Governments will bend over backwards to supply Washington with intelligence. But protecting metropolitan neighbourhoods from drug trafficking, street shoot-outs, money-laundering and major tax evasion –…
Former Premier Nathan Rees’s private life has been aired in Sydney’s Tank Stream media, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald, to devastating effect. Reporters Andrew Clennell and Sean Nicholls have climbed into Rees over an affair with a 40-year-old mother of two which occurred a year ago. Two consenting adults have brief affair…
During the latest Eddie Obeid hearings at the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) four former Labor ministers testified they had no idea Obeid had financial interests in Circular Quay restaurants, lucrative water leases and a health service firm. The Four Wise Men – two former Treasurers Michael Costa and Eric Roozendaal, Police Minister Carl Scully…
When Tony Abbott’s election team needed a three-star general to bolster their cruel and absurd “stop the boats” election slogan they turned to Angus Campbell. He is now dragging the political impartiality of the ADF through the mud and his media performances are so hopeless he has made a laughing stock of the top brass….
Does former NSW ALP powerbroker Eddie Obeid have a breaking point? During the year-long anti-corruption investigations Obeid has studiously protected his former colleagues. But will his protective silence last? Obeid has the dirt to take down his ALP accomplices in the Carr to Keneally Governments which ruled NSW between 1995 and 2011. Obeid has already…
Anthony Albanese says: “What you see is what you get.” And what do you get? A gold-plated dill. Forget all the spin, Albo is an authentic machine politician, a product of Sussex Street, the notorious address that has come to symbolise the bureaucratic dysfunctionality of the NSW branch of the ALP. After five general secretaries…
Complaints have been made to the Reserve Bank of Australia over bipartisan political remarks made by board member Roger Corbett supporting Tony Abbott in Saturday’s federal election and rubbishing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. An RBA official said all complaints would be investigated and the findings made public. Senator Doug Cameron, a Labor frontbencher, called on…
