by Jim Ball | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Random Notes
It is such a delicious Sydney story, or rather, such a Sussex Street, NSW, Labor Party story, complete with all the usual props, tropes and memes. A paper bag of $100,000 cash, shadowy property developers, Labor Sussex Street HQ, a Haymarket chinese restaurant and the...
by Jim Ball | Feb 4, 2019 | Blog, Cashless Welfare Card, Labor Party, Labor Party, The Greens |
In the latest Spectator Magazine, (Friday Friday 1/2/19) the former Howard Government Minister Neil Brown makes the observation that “that all governments (and opposition’s) and international bodies have a vested interest in failure and in making problems worse,...
by Jim Ball | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Elites, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
Reading Graeme Richardson’s column in the Oz, Things Grim for Most in the West in tandem with both the excellent Maurice Newman and Henry Ergas columns on the same op-ed page, it strikes me that what lifetime professional political players and lobbiests like Richo...
by Jim Ball | Jan 4, 2019 | Barnaby Joyce, Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, National Party |
When, you read this and I suggest you do, you may well wonder, like me: what the hell is Barnaby Joyce doing on the back bench? I often rework Trotsky line on war: ‘You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you’ and in that respect this...
by Jim Ball | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Boats, Labor Party, Labor Party, Random Notes, Refugees |
Just like the NBN, Labor’s policy on border protection could be written on the back of a beer coaster. Although packaged, marketed and grossly misrepresented under the misty eyed, misguided and emotionally charged, stalking horse of being a more compassionate and...
by Jim Ball | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog, Boats, Border Security/Multiculturalism, Labor Party, Labor Party, Refugees |
Just like the NBN, Labor’s policy on border protection could be written on the back of an envelope. Although packaged, marketed and grossly misrepresented under the misty eyed, misguided and emotionally charged, stalking horse of being a more compassionate and...
