Category: State

  • Neoliberalism and feminism

    Beware the arrival of neoliberal feminism … What do feminists have in common with Gina Rinehart? Nothing … Water mining wars erupt in the Tweed Valley … Luke Foley dog whistles again … Euthanasia debate reborn … NSW aborigines crash State of Origin selection barrier … and more Thanks largely to Donald Trump, recruitment to…

  • The vandalising of Sydney’s Domain

    How Sydney’s Domain was vandalised by neo-con barbarians from corporate Australia … Royal commission hammers some banks and dusts others with a feather … Russian double agent wiped off media news lists … Israeli writer supports Gaza protests The Domain, an envelope of green space in central Sydney, is as famous as London’s Hyde Park,…

  • Fred Nile’s bid to be Senator

    Fred Nile’s Last Hurrah: a NSW Bunyip Aristocracy … Malcolm Turnbull renews the Culture Wars … Peter Dutton: Poster Boy as Most Hated Politician … Britain’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is alive and kicking goals … Lessons in overthrowing Donald Trump … and more Fred Nile’s bid to be Senator Nile About 20 years ago…

  • The Lowy family and the football stadiums

    Frank Lowy family shifts from shopping centres to catering at football stadiums … ALP rodent Peter Beattie takes gold at Commonwealth Games … Oh no, not another cricket fraud …Porton Down’s Motorola salesman backs Theresa May’s Putin story … Anzac stories avoided by the media … The zillionaire Frank Lowy family, owners of the Westfield…

  • Tea Party in the White House

    Tea Party embedded in Trump’s White House With the promotion of Mike Pompeo to the position of US Secretary of State, the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, the Tea Party, is now embedded in the White House. If you thought US President Donald Trump was “off the wall”, then let me introduce you to…

  • “Self-help” for public servants

    “Self-help” books for public servants – gimme a break! Not a day seems to pass when my blood isn’t boiling and my heart rate isn’t soaring to stratospheric levels. This week I’m mad as hell, to coin a phrase from a popular TV show, about the NSW Government’s decision to spend about $600,000 to buy…

  • Beware imposed referendums

    Beware politicians who inflict                                               referendums on voters Elected politicians across the world have invented two devices to avoid taking their own decision: they send any controversial subject off to outside consultants, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers…

  • Cooking the books

    NSW Budget becomes the excuse for fake news extravaganza … Item One: “World-class” hospital at Tweed Heads … Item Two: Massive taxpayer grant to NSW Art Gallery … World news in summary: Mrs May embraces Orange Order and Trump’s big dollar gamble. Stop Press: Winter break Cooking the books When I worked fulltime as State…

  • Ungainly landing for Gladys

    At home, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian takes backflip which turns into belly flop … Will someone deport unwanted US Republican warmonger Senator John McCain? … And away, after Manchester bombing Prime Minister Theresa May manages to drop in polls … Now Putin is accused of ballot-rigging in Malta (!!) … Our Gladys in belly flop…

  • Art Gallery turmoil makes waves

    Brisbane audience welcomes book on Art Gallery of NSW … AGNSW director Dr Michael Brand spotted in Venice: next stop Brisbane … Theresa May’s big election gamble … Rupert Murdoch’s loses his news room gorillas … NSW Coroner report on Lindt Café siege: whitewash or what? … Art gallery turmoil making waves News travels fast. When…