En Passant

Adani tells you everything you need to know about politics in Australia. The decisions by the Queensland and Federal Governments to give Adani various approvals to effectively mine a massive amount of coal is irrational.  It makes no sense economically. It makes no sense environmentally. But to those involved it makes perfect political sense. Jobs, […]

At first I thought all the hallelujahs were for the risen Christ. Not so. I mistook the relief people felt for the election campaigns going quiet for the joy of Christians celebrating the resurrection of their Lord and Saviour. In the secular but not really secular society that is Australia it is an easy mistake […]

This is a government which, like its Labor and Coalition predecessors over the last 3 decades, is engaged in shifting more of the wealth we workers create from us to capital. The very logic of the repeal of the Carbon Tax is to see business, not working class consumers, reap the benefits.

Why don’t we learn a lesson from the bosses? If annual pay increases of 17 percent are OK for them, they’re OK for us too.