Archive for May, 2018
The 2018 AFR Rich List: A sad indictment of Australia’s rampant neoliberalism
Posted by John, May 28th, 2018 - under Rich list.
Tags: Australian Financial Review
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The latest AFR Rich List charts Australia’s wealthiest and illustrates why we have one of the fastest growing inequality rates in the world, writes John Passant in Independent Australia.
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Banking Royal Commission: it’s time to put capitalism on trial
Posted by John, May 21st, 2018 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Banks, Capitalism
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My article in Solidarity magazine on the Banking Royal Commission. It’s the economy, stupid.
Conversation With A Tax Collector About Poetry
Posted by John, May 18th, 2018 - under Poems, Tax.
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Conversation With A Tax Collector About Poetry – Vladimir Mayakovsky [1926]
The Coalition is a boys’ own club
Posted by John, May 16th, 2018 - under Liberal National Party, Liberal Party, National Party, sexism.
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The disendorsement of sitting Liberal National Party member and Assistant Minister Jane Prentice highlights the sexist nature of the Coalition parties, I write in Independent Australia.
Can Liberal MP Julia Banks – or anyone – live on $40 a day?
Posted by John, May 7th, 2018 - under Julia Banks, Newstart allowance.
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Last Wednesday (2 May), Liberal MP Julia Banks – one of the nodding heads behind PM Malcolm Turnbull when Question Time is televised – claimed she could live on the Newstart allowance of $40 a day while looking for a job. This $40 is the pittance a single unemployed person gets for the system’s […]
Review: John Passant’s Songs for the Band Unformed
Posted by John, May 6th, 2018 - under John Passant, Poems, Sara Moss, Songs for the band unformed.
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In Independent Australia Sara Moss reviews IA contributor John Passant’s book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed, a passionate reflection on politics and love.