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Lover, lover, lover – burying the dead, Scott Morrison, and L. Cohen
One thing the Shadow Minister for Immigration reminded me of yesterday is that whatever qualities may be required for the practice of politics, the possession of emotional intelligence is not one of...
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Hockey’s contempt; lavartus prodeo nights redux
In his rush to denigrate Treasurer Wayne Swan‘s award from Euromoney Magazine as Treasurer of the Year, Joe Hockey managed to deliver both ethnic slurs and sexist insults. Listing several countries...
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Dear Joe Hockey
Dear Joe Hockey, Meet Archie. According to you Archie has the ideal parental configuration, that is, he has a male and a female parent as his primary carers. Note I don’t say he has a “mother and...
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Pell claims a “disproportionate attack on the church”
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, today claimed that calls for a royal commission into the sexual abuse of children by priests and brothers are a “disproportionate attack on the...
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Men who hate women are everybody’s problem.
It’s no surprise that there dwell among us packs of males, whose feelings about women are so conflicted that while outwardly conducting apparently reasonable relationships with females close to them,...
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I’m Joe Hockey. You’re not.
Treasurer Joe Hockey’s comments today on the effects of his budget cuts on those less financially advantaged should convince, if one is not not already convinced, that the conservative, or as some...
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Random political concerns
1. Is the taxpayer funding Treasurer Joe Hockey’s defamation case against Fairfax Press? Nobody seems to be able to get a satisfactory answer to this question, so this morning I sent Mr Hockey a...
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Abbott’s denial of reality
It’s the goal of every political party to impose its particular concept of reality onto the nation over which it desires governance. Treasurer Joe Hockey, for example, wants to convince us that if we...
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Hockey, Lawler, Jackson: the self aggrandisement of the the mediocre
On Monday’s episode of Four Corners, we witnessed the destructive power of excessive self-belief as expressed in the folie à deux performed for us by Kathy Jackson and Michael Lawler. I don’t think...
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Living with Trump
The single most important asset Australia must have to adjust to the new world order we face from next January is a government capable of dealing with the considerable challenges a Trump presidency...
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