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Visit to #BentleyBlockade on the eve of police destruction?@margokingston1 Twitter report
April 28, 2014
Frontline on #BentleyBlockade: @trisholaviolet reports
April 15, 2014
Can You Hear Us – Bentley Blockade April 2014 by @ParisandDarmin Dawn at Bentley is magic. It’s the time when we most deeply feel the preciousness of the earth we’re standing on, and reaffirm the imperative of protecting it for future generations. Soft mist shrouds the gentle landscape. Rolling green pastures, trees just peeping through […]
Will Libs bite bullet, withdraw Howard’s over-the-top entitlements to self-funded retirees?
March 9, 2014
By Margo Kingston @margokingston1 9th March, 2014 When Samantha Maiden reported today that the Audit Commission wanted super-generous seniors health card benefits to self-funded retirees reversed, I dug up my 2002 SMH budget comment on the matter. The Libs are to blame for this totally unsustainable entitlement culture they knew would help cripple the budget […]
Loggers ‘the ultimate conservationists’: Abbott’s environment vandalism policy
March 5, 2014
Speech delivered by Tony Abbott to the Forestworks Dinner in Canberra Tuesday, 4 March 2014 Julie, I want to thank you very much indeed for that kind introduction. It’s nice to have a list of things recounted to an appreciative audience – it really is nice. But the most important fact, at least insofar I suspect […]
What Abbott’s #PPL is really about: @stephaniedale22 comment
August 21, 2013
By Stephanie Dale @stephaniedale22 21 August 2013 The Coalition’s controversial Paid Parental Leave policy – what’s it really about? Actually, first of all I’m confused about why it’s called ‘parental’ leave, when according to the Liberal Party’s website it applies only to mothers? Oh yes, a second aside, I’ve called it the ‘Coalition’s’ policy, even though technically […]
Time for policy meat from the incoming Abbott government, but how can we get it?
August 19, 2013
by Margo Kingston 19 August 2013 It’s over for Labor. I knew it intellectually when I saw Rudd steal from the Coalition the Northern Australia policy Labor had already destroyed, then hold up a bottle of vegemite to scare voters about a GST Abbott had convincingly ruled out in his first term. I felt it when […]
Is the world ready for PM Tony ‘what he meant to say’ Abbott?
May 8, 2013
By Noely Neate May 8, 2013 I was not going to go here, because all manner of Feminists, accredited and self-proclaimed, have had a say. Some I agree with, some I think are getting hung up on exactly what many of us on Twitter are always complaining about, that is, focussing on a ‘gotcha’ instead of […]
