by Jim Ball | Mar 10, 2020 | Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes
POLITICAL LANDSCAPE HAS CHANGED LIBERAL LABOUR DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN In Australia the political parties used to line up along particular class lines. THEN Labor was for the worker and the unions, the Liberals for the businessman and the upper middle...
by Jim Ball | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Co2, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes, Zero Net Emissions |
In light of Labor’s brazen, bold but at the same time courageous (in the Yes Minister, crazy brave sense) commitment to zero net Co2 emissions by 2050, why don’t the Libs have the courage to double down and match them with their own commitment to a series of nuclear...
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...
