Wednesday 2nd of April 2025

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the barons are back .....

the barons are back .....

The Magna Carta forced King John to give away powers. But big business now exerts a chilling grip on the workforce

the bleedin' obvious .....

the bleedin' obvious .....

Chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon has reiterated his comments that political leaders who are unpopular are unlikely to survive.

Mr Fitzgibbon said this morning that he still believed Prime Minister Julia Gillard had time to turn her dire polling numbers around.

the view from the picket line .....

the real thing .....

The ALP has been attacking the Greens and talking about Labor values.  Here’s how the Prime Minister described Labor values in a speech last year. She said:

let the games begin .....

let the games begin .....

Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals...

here's hillary .....

here's hillary .....

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria.

sharing the pain .....

sharing the pain .....

remembering rattusland .....

 

in the shadow of rattusland ..... 

Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote?

‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality.

a land in darkness .....

the prince of darkness .....

In political fortune telling self-delusion is not helpful — the stakes are too high. This is my reading of the available evidence of our immediate political future. I think that we are witness to a frightening convergence of forces in Australian political and social life.

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