What Thinking Australian Are Thinking
What thinking Australians are thinking… There’s not much in it. Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten both underwhelm and neither inspire. They have treated the office of the prime minister as some sort of prize in a game of revolving treachery. And, irrespective of...We’re Not in Kansas Anymore Toto
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The Corrosive And Destructive Politics Of Identity
by Jim Ball | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Identitiy Politics, Random Notes
On my home page I write in part about how every “..sectional, factional, cultural, interest and identity group can feast at the expense of everyone else…” It is corrosive and divisive. Mark Latham picks up on this theme in his blistering attack on the divisive...
Labor’s Definitions of Savings
by Jim Ball | May 10, 2016 | Blog, Labor Party
We’ve all heard the 19th century poem about the man on the stair that wasn’t there. Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away… This seems to be the underlying...Search
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