Month: March 2012

THE Red Corner boxer who has been knocked out in the first 30 seconds of the first round by the Boxer in the Blue Corner is not in much of a position to claim “we wuz robbed”. But Labor in Queensland was robbed. It won 27 per cent of the vote and only nine per cent of the seats. Continue reading “Democratic dysfunction in thumping Qld result”

WESTERN Australian Premier Colin Barnett feels hard done by. So hard done by that he is willing to chuck his lot in with the miners in a High Court challenge to the mineral resources rent tax. Continue reading “Miners clutch at constitutional straws”

THE politics of scaremongering comes in short, exaggerated language – talk of disasters and catastrophes, usually when some small government benefit is being removed or the sacred surplus is threatened. The really scary stuff, though, comes in measured, dispassionate words in a longer discourse of fact and argument. Continue reading “Get rid of middle-class welfare”

EVERY survey on public respect for vocations has journalists down there with used-car salesmen, real-estate agents, politicians and prostitutes. But journalists are different. Continue reading “Consumers of news singularly unprotected”

LINDY Chamberlain will be 64 tomorrow (Sunday 3 March 2012). She has spent half her life fighting the accusation that she murdered her baby daughter Azaria at Ayers Rock in 1980. She is continuing the fight now. Continue reading “No doubt now the dingo took Azaria”