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Australians fighting for a fair go lost a champion this week with the death of Malcolm Fraser

Australians fighting for a fair go for asylum seekers, aboriginal equity and a fair go for all lost a champion this week with the death of Malcolm Fraser. Australia is poorer for the loss of a man who, late in life, managed to earn the respect of many younger Australians for his principled stance on human rights issues.

Cruel and degrading treatment of refugees, both adult and child, enabled by…

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Changes to proposed data retention legislation are laughably inadequate.

Changes to mandatory data retention legislation that purport to protect journalists and their sources are laughably inadequate. Under the proposed laws, that have been agreed upon by both major parties, authorities (other than ASIO) would need to obtain a warrant before accessing the collected data of “professional journalists”. Presumably, an investigator compiling a “contact map” would have a…

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Centrepay encourages rent seeking behaviour and predatory lending practices

Centrelink encourages rent seeking behaviour and predatory lending practices through its centrepay system. Recent revelations that whitegoods leasing company Radio Rentals have extracted $90 million directly from welfare recipients over a 12 month period highlight predatory business models of the many consumer rental and “payday loan” organisations operating in Australia.

Centrelink provides the…

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Hockey: Stupid, incompetent or corrupt?

Treasurer Joe Hockey’s decision to sue Fairfax Media is a classic example of the Streisand effect. Hockey’s claim that a 2014 article titled “Treasurer for sale” unreasonably implied that he is corrupt. This claim totally ignores the fact that Joe Hockey is the treasurer in a government that has consistently rewarded Liberal Party donors with policy influence.

Joe has shown remarkably poor…

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Joe's thought bubble: Allowing Australian workers to access superannuation for housing.

Dullard Treasurer Joe Hockey’s recent thought bubble of allowing Australians to dip into superannuation to buy a home is another attempt by this government to redistribute Australia’s wealth. It is designed to further inflate a housing market that is already inaccessible to many working Australians, and drive superannuation savings out of the hands of younger Australian workers into the hands of…

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Mandatory data retention: an attack on the rights and freedoms of every Australian.

Proposed mandatory data retention laws, that will force telecommunications providers to store customer information for a minimum of 2 years, are an attack on the rights and freedoms of every Australian. Similar schemes in the United States are secretly run and funded by the government, as outlined in classified documents released by Edward Snowden and include massive, purpose built high security…

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A real intergenerational report

The release of the governments highly politicised intergenerational report gives the nation a chance to consider the future. The Abbott government has wasted the opportunity to engage both the opposition and the public in the serious, mature and intellectual debate required to repair the Australian economy. They have released a biased report that attempts to justify Joe Hockey’s highly unpopular…

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Labor following Abbott off a cliff on data retention

Tony Abbott, terminally unpopular with both the electorate and his own party, seems to be the only person in Australia that believes his job is safe. While the Labor party look on in amusement, car...

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Better the devil we know: Deadlocked government provides safe harbor

Tony Abbott has apparently avoided the political gallows for another week. Bookmakers are counting their winnings while Labor counts their blessings. Conservatives are in raptures over opinion poll...

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Immigration dept set dogs on whistleblowers

The Australian Federal Police have launched a politically motivated criminal investigation into members of the internationally respected NGO Save The Children. The investigation targets staff who p...

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attack on penalty rates is nothing but another ideologically driven attempt to further redistribute Australia's wealth

The Abbott government, under the control of the IPA, is desperate to reduce the take home wages of workers. Ideology is driving the debate, with workers the big losers. Abbott, Hockey, Turnbull and...

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The real intergenerational theft

Intergenerational theft is a buzzword among temporary Prime Minister Abbott, totally bewildered treasurer Joe Hockey and pals. Apparently Australia's lucky welfare recipients just have it too good ...

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The Abbott governments attack on personal freedom

Supposed liberal government, that claims to support small government and personal liberty, Abbott and co have astounded the Australian public with consistent attacks on our freedoms. Using contorte...

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Liberal Party leadership crisis

The Liberal Party is leaking like a nappy worn by an adult baby with gastro. While this is great news for news outlets, social media and bloggers like myself, it spells disaster for Prime Minister ...

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Abbott's terror war. (Psychological war on the Australian people)

Tony Abbott is the most unpopular Australian Prime Minister of the last 40 years. In an obvious and cynical attempt to win the respect of voters, Mr Abbott has engaged in a systematic attempt to te...

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Why I stand with Gillian Triggs

The Abbott government has engaged in a sustained attack on Australia's independent Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs. The attempt to draw attention away from a recent human rights co...

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Australia's rotten political core

The Abbott government has taken Australian politics to new lows.While Tony Abbott himself is despised by a large majority of the population, he is simply the idiotic fall guy for a political party ...