Predictably the crises of climate change and the pandemic highlighted deficits in health services, markets, welfare and education. Both have accelerated a predictable economic recession. To understand the early signs of an economic downturn, we need to go back to when politically acknowledged signs of a faltering economy appeared. The GDP downturn in the third […]
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Dear Gladys
Dear Gladys, Our relationship has curdled, and I am concerned about your mixed messages. Despite maintaining it was finished between us (The voters, not Daryl), you remain in the house. Using our joint account to pay $10,000 a day for your expensive addiction to lawyers. When lovers tell each other it is over, they separate as […]
Why alternative truths?
Much is made of the 21st century being a post-truth world. Many identified it when presidential spokesperson Kellyanne Conway defended White House Press secretary Sean Spicer’s fallacious claim about attendance numbers at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Kellyanne Conway infamously referred to Spicer’s assertions as “Alternative facts“. This became a catch cry of satirists, comedians and news […]
Frydenberg’s maths problem
The media on both ends of the political spectrum promote Australia’s Liberal Party, as the party of economic management. Pandemics and recession have not slowed the recovery down. “Frydenberg spends the bounty to drive unemployment to new lows.” reads one title from the Conversation. The Australian says of their Treasurer: “Australia to aim for less […]
Dob in a bludger
The paucity of unemployment figures used by the government hides the reality of how few jobs there are.
Guide to an insurrection
The sequence of events leading to the Insurrection in America as old religious, racist, white men invaded the Capitol
Ruby-faced Gladys
Gladys Berejiklian’s long list of corrupt and incompetent governance of the State of NSW
Low hanging Fruit
The nonsense that one of the smallest markets for employment – fruit picking – should be promoted as an unemployment solution.
Unemployment by Covid exploded
The unrealised calamity of rising unemployment during the Covid lockdown and why the ABS didn’t alert us to its proper scope.
Not so Covid Safe
Why CovidSafe was technologically never going to be a practical app to aid Covid-19 tracing (which it proved not to be).