Come the Revolution – Alex Mitchell
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – UK Referendum on Europe: stay in EU or sink in North Sea?
If you are starting to believe that the United States has gone completely bonkers, then you’ve been watching the US Republican primaries campaign dominated by looney tunes like Donald Trump, the billionaire New York real estate developer and casino owner, and Canadian-born Senator Ted Kruz from Texas. But don’t be obsessed by what’s happening in…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Sub-prime Australia
Late Traffic News Long overdue road safety signs spotted on a main road near the Bruce Highway in Queensland declare: DON’T SLEEP AND DRIVE Australia’s sub-prime economy is sinking fast In 2008, sub-prime mortgages brought the US banking system and Wall Street to their knees. Thousands of mortgagees were kicked out of their homes, businesses…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Senior Oz army officers recruited by Arab regimes
Federal governments over the past decade have fed Australians the story that there are no Aussie “boots on the ground” in various parts of the Middle East. Those were lies. For the record, let’s understand that Australian “special forces” and other branches of the ADF are operating either officially or unofficially in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Tony Abbott is channelling the Joh for Canberra fiasco
Slipping into Federal Election year, the Liberal Party of Australia is split between two hostile forces. Supporters of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are on one side and disciples of sacked prime minister Tony Abbott are on the other. In Liberal Party terms the split is a “left” (Turnbull) versus “right” (Abbott] affair. The intensity of…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Tony Abbott on a mission to wreck Liberals – who’s complaining?
In his farewell speech on 15 September 2015 after Liberal MPs dumped him as prime minister, Tony Abbott said: “My pledge today is to make this change as easy as I can. There will be no wrecking, no undermining and no sniping. “I’ve never leaked or backgrounded against anyone and I certainly won’t start now.…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – David Bowie’s brush with fascism and the occult
For the record, here are some of the views of the late David Bowie. • “Britain is ready for a fascist leader. I think Britain would benefit from a fascist leader. After all, fascism is really nationalism.” • “There is no politician like me. As I see it, I am the only alternative for premier…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Richo threatens to spill the beans on Hawke and Abeles
Graham Richardson, aka “Richo” or “Robespierre”, is in a race against a deadly cancer to complete a second volume of autobiography. The former NSW ALP general secretary, senator and Cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments plans to reveal information about the financial relationship between Hawke and his patron, TNT boss Sir Peter Abeles,…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – PM Turnbull’s main danger is not Bill Shorten, it’s Abbott
Remember the grim days when Tony Abbott was Prime Minister? His opponent, Labor Leader Bill Shorten, was miles ahead in the polls as preferred PM. Now that Abbott has been ousted by his own party and Malcolm Turnbull installed as Australia’s 29th PM, the polls have gone into reverse. In this month’s Newspoll, Shorten’s rating…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – Murdoch’s legal fixer claims ABC’s top job
When are Australians going to get over the foolishness of giving uncritical support to women who become the “first female” to hold this or that top job? It is not gender which determines whether someone will be good at a job or not. It is the quality of their values. The great Martin Luther King…
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Alex Mitchell’s Weekly Notebook – China’s slowdown starts to hit home
Surely, it’s time that the saying, “When Wall Street sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia”, was updated. It retains some veracity because the New York Stock Exchange is the biggest in the world, US banks are the largest and the US economy is the global heavyweight. But what about China? What if Beijing…
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