YOU have to wonder who is Commander-in-Chief of the US armed forces. If Barack Obama still thinks he is leading the armed forces he should look beyond the military coterie’s obsession with Iraq and Afghanistan and ask where does US security – and indeed world security – really lie. Continue reading “Real US security lies in withdrawal”
Month: August 2010
40 years of the national tallyroom
MY FIRST national tallyroom experience was at the 1969 election. As the poverty-stricken son of a clergyman I was chosen with a few others from the Political Science I class by Professor Fin Crisp in response to a request for casual labour for election night. Continue reading “40 years of the national tallyroom”
HERE is a list of election-cycle clunkers. They are clunkers that the Australian public should not have endured but which they largely brought upon themselves. Continue reading “”
10 months of conservative free-for-all
AT THE beginning of this year when a Labor victory was assumed by one and all, I wrote in this column: “Most people assume that a second Rudd term is inevitable. I think is quite likely, but Abbott should not be ruled out. The advantages that an Opposition has with apathetic, gullible and ignorant masses, a media rightly down on any glitches with government programs, easy populist one-liners, plus the present electoral-boundary advantage suggest an Abbott victory is not out of the question. . . . Continue reading “10 months of conservative free-for-all”