Quick Links – Commission of Audit
Terms of Reference Phase 1 Report (the one that’s caused most of the uproar). Submissions from Organisations and Business Submissions from Individuals The humane alternative
One for Your Amazon Wish-List
French economist Thomas Piketty has been picking up a lot of attention in the rest of the English speaking world – well mainly the US...
Spoiler
Lamest April Fools' Day joke so far today. There must be better efforts out there. Just post 'em as you find 'em. Please. I could...
Sovereign Borders, not so Sovereign Nation II: a Nice Little Constitutional Conundrum
In my last post on Troppo I raised this question: ...who’s actually running [Australia’s] foreign policy these days? Is it Julie Bishop, as Minister for...
‘…all the way up through the chain.’
Scott Morrison was on RN Breakfast on Monday 25 November, hosing down the idea that the diplomatic row with Indonesia over past spying on the...
Love, Marriage and Terror in Melbourne’s Outer Leafies
Some memories fade too slowly. I was reminded of one such memory by the TV advertisement being aired in the lead up to White Ribbon...
Nuanced Argument from an Unlikely Source
To defend free speech does not mean you cannot criticise how others exercise it. The very opposite, if anything. With weaker legal restrictions on, say,...