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The Fourth Estate or Publicity Machine?

5 October 2012

Consider for a moment the following comparison of two organisations. Organisation A: • members readily identifiable by the ‘colours’ or patches they wear. • when in large groups, regularly has violent clashes with the police. • ignores court rulings/directions. • ‘representatives’ use bullying and stand over tactics to get their way. • – failure to [...]

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Queensland Labor Silent On Government Funding

26 July 2012

With the ever increasing lists of projects being cancelled by the current LNP Government, any reasonable person would have thought that the Opposition would be scrutinising everything that tax payers money is spent on. Except this hasn’t been the case. As mentioned in the post Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding?, the LNP Government is [...]

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Whats On The List Of Priorities For State Funding?

23 July 2012

Hardly a day goes by where the media and the ALP opposition aren’t making some sort of noise about the withdrawal of funding for particular projects by the current LNP government. In recent weeks, we have seen the closure of GoPrint, Q-Fleet, SDS, Fanfare, the Darling Downs Correctional Centre, and Skilling Queensland, because they were running at a loss [...]

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Public Question To Dr. Paul Williams. Re: Australia’s Republic Debate

15 June 2012

Below is a copy of the email that I sent Dr Paul Williams, Senior lecturer at the School of Humanities on Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus, three days ago. At the time of publishing this post, it still has not been replied to. Whilst I am not naive enough to think that he would personally [...]

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The Big Announcement

4 June 2012

By now most of the readers of this blog would be aware that in 2013 I will be throwing my hat in the the ring of election madness as a candidate for a Senate seat in Queensland. Why after all these years of having a go at they way politicians govern, would I possibly want [...]

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Is A Political Party It’s Leader Or The People Within It

16 April 2012

Last week saw the resignation from Australian politics by the Australian Greens leader, Bob Brown. Since the announcement, there has been all sort of speculation as to the future of the party without him at the helm. Whilst the reasons behind his departure have been wide and varied, ranging from saying that it was due [...]

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Be Wary Of A Pleading Politician

11 April 2012

With recent opinion polls suggesting that Federal Labor is in dire straits, and the Queensland State election following through with it, banishing Labor to the political wilderness for at least the next decade, things are looking pretty grim for the ALP’s candidate for Brisbane Lord Mayor, Ray Smith. Things appear to be that dire in [...]

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The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling

25 March 2012

As the sun rises over Queensland this Sunday morning, politically it is a far different state than it was 24 hours ago. Labor in Queensland has been handed one of the most stinging defeats ever seen in our political history. The LNP has been handed a landslide victory, that literally destroyed the ALP. With counting [...]

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What Do We Know About The Candidates?

20 March 2012

The Queensland state election is only 4 days away, and voting is always a topic in conversation. When asked who someone is going to vote for, let alone knew who was running, the typical reply is “don’t know”, or they were voting ALP or Green because they didn’t like Bob Katter or Campbell Newman. What [...]

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Election seen through smudged lens

18 March 2012

In yesterday’s The Courier Mail, Des Houghton wrote an opinion piece about the Qld ALP’s 2012 election campaign. The piece began with the line, “SO WE have endured an election campaign with plenty of mud-slinging”. A paragraph later he borrows from the ALP strategists play book, describing the party in similar terms to how they [...]

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