Month: April 2015

IT HAS been a week of government and communal effort to come to the rescue of people and private property affected by storms and floods. Continue reading “Government cannot refreeze the Greenland icesheet”

OH THE rank hypocrisy of Saint Peter of the Three Smirks. It was he who betrayed the creed of budget prudence by cutting capital gains tax in half; by cutting tax on superannuation for those over 60; and by squandering the fruits of the mining boom on tax cuts for the rich. Continue reading “St Peter of the three smirks betrays Budget purity”

THE legal system has rarely been able to keep up with technology. And so it has been with the question of the illegal downloading of music and movies from the internet. This week much has been made of the legal victory of the copyright owners of the Dallas Buyers Club in the Federal Court. They successfully sought an order for six internet services providers to disclose the names and addresses of people suspected of illegal downloading. But this was more a technological victory than a legal one. Continue reading “Legal system too slow for copyright solution”

LABOR should now stop repaying Tony Abbott for the six years of obstructionist bastardry during the time Labor was last in Government – for Labor’s own sake and the sake of the nation. Continue reading “Not being Abbott is not enough for Labor”