My local Liberal MP recently deleted a comment I left on her Facebook post. Then she blocked me. And all because I spoke an inconvenient truth. Her post & my comment Proof I was right The deficit left by Labor In August, before the election, the Treasury (not Labor) forecast we’d run at a $54.6b deficit […]
Clive Palmer will help axe the carbon tax. But is that good or bad?
In a press conference today, with Al Gore, Clive Palmer announced that his party will vote in the Senate to repeal the carbon tax. On one condition: That energy companies are legally required to pass any savings on to consumers. He also said he wants to replace the carbon tax with an emissions trading scheme (ETS) that would […]
Here’s how signing petitions helps
Abbott recently tried to get more than 70,000 hectares of World Heritage listed Tasmanian forest delisted. No-one had ever tried to delist something before. But he’s a conservationist… 😉 Anyway, today the World Heritage Committee rejected Abbott’s proposal, so the forest will remain safe. This is great news for Australia and the world, and an excellent […]
Don’t be fooled by climate-change deniers – 14 denier claims & how to refute them
Climate-change deniers are everywhere. If you’ve ever had a conversation about global warming, you’ve probably heard their ‘arguments’. Despite the fact that they typically provide very little evidence to support their position, they can be distracting, so it’s helpful to have the facts at hand, to handle their rhetoric. Here’s a collection of some of the […]
Think your tax supports dole bludgers? Think again!
Joe Hockey lied again I know you may find it surprising, but smokin’ Joe lied again, last night: …the average working Australian, be they a cleaner, a plumber or a teacher, is working over one month full time each year just to pay for the welfare of another Australian.” This is an outright lie. Most Australians get […]
Who’s REALLY running Australia?
A big-biz alliance told Abbott what policies it wanted Recently an alliance of big businesses put together a wishlist of 100 policies they wanted our government to implement. I’ll discuss these policies in a second, but for now, think of them as a recipe for making the rich richer. Look how many he adopted… […]
Budget 2014 – You lose, the rich win, and what you can do about it
Hockey’s budget will hit us hard By now you probably already know Hockey and Abbott have targeted you with their budget. If you don’t, read this, this, this and this. Or if you don’t have time for that, here’s a good summary… But big biz is $30 billion better off! What you may not know […]
Abbott’s war on the rest of us – And why there’s no need
In the UK at the moment, there’s skyrocketing food poverty. And in the US, more than one in five American kids live in a ‘food insecure’ household. In both cases, inadequate low-income wages, high unemployment, and inadequate welfare are all significant contributors. And this is exactly where Australia is heading… 14.4% of Australians already live in […]
Why is Abbott undercutting the renewables industry?
We know coal power isn’t sustainable Australia has only enough coal to last us another 43-90 years. Pollution killed 7 million people in 2012. And we know we don’t need it We could already power all of Western Australia with renewable energy (for less than the cost of powering it with fossil fuels). A 50 square […]
Abbott to kill Manus Island human rights inquiry to cover up abuses
Tony Abbott and the Papua New Guinea government plan to shut down a human rights inquiry into human rights abuses in the Manus Island asylum seeker detention centre. Despite recent violence from locals and PNG police that resulted in the death of one detainee, and serious injuries to 77 more. Not to mention reports and […]