Is it really taxation for the common good, or rather, or a form of extortion by a greedy entity that demands obedience? The issue of taxation is always one that brings anxiety and politics to the fore, those on the left say were aren’t taxed enough until the asset seizures and church burning starts, and…
Into the realms of extraordinary stupidity does a government go when it detaches itself from reality. It is customary for politicians and political parties to do less to aggravate voters when they’re taking a hammering in the opinion polls. That can not be said for the Liberal Party of Australia and the current Federal Government…
After seeing how everything government ever does turns into a complete shambles that requires everything to fixed and re-fixed over and over again, why on Earth would you trust the government with your life? This isn’t a matter of being pro or anti gun, this is a question of survival. The Martin Place Siege should…
Watching the Australian Media and the political class fall into line over the slain of Paris after the attack on Charlie Hebdo by Islamic Terrorists should have made Australians angrier than the attack itself. That is because in Australia you couldn’t actually publish the Charlie Hebdo magazine. That is because in Australia if a private…
In the early hours of December 16th 2014 two innocent people died, to be more precise, two people were murdered. More than merely murdered, they were sacrificed upon the alter of Political Correctness, left to die by the institutions of the State who were meant to do all in their power to protect them, left…
To the right Honourable Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia. Sir, I implore you on behalf of a great many Australians to do one thing, to make one simple gesture, and that is, stop, stop attempting to ingratiate yourself with those on the political left, stop trying to bring the other side along with you.…
A common mistake people make when talking about wealth disparity and income inequality in Australia is that they often attempt to conflate what is happening elsewhere in the world than what is happening here. This cross-cultural relevance attempt is often made mistakenly to make the problem sound far worse than it is, or can be…
At some point one has to ask, what is with those of the political left and their aversion to truth? There is simply making an erroneous statement, everyone will be guilty of that from time to time, and then there is also bending a truth or factoid in order to express a view, and then…
Rights, how important are they and by which means should we protect them? Should we adopt a “Bill of Rights” in the same way many other advanced democracies have? If we should, who should be entrusted to write such an important instrument of social order? Should it be a simple law or should it be…
Who speaks for you? Who speaks for me? Who speaks for all of us? Do we want someone to speak in our stead? And if everyone is doing the talking, who is doing the listening? The simple Latin phrase “vox populi” can imply a number of things, most importantly that the people have a voice…
How important is the right to speak? What does it mean? What danger does it represent to the state? What danger to the citizen does its curtailment represent? Pertinent questions in a world where altered views of the very right to speak exist. And an even more important question to be asking in a world…
Australians are often touted as having a well-tuned at-birth installed “Bull-Dust” detector, but, is this really true? Or are we just telling ourselves something we want to be true in the vain hope it is? In a landscape of ideas divided between equally questionable theorems, where views, opinions and events are seen through one coloured…
Is cowardice a value? Are we cowardly? Are our values for sale? Do we trade our values so that we need not defend them? Have values become irrelevant to the modern world we live in? As Australia grapples with its place in the world it should be asking not only the previous but other important…
Merit, and equality, much has been said of late regarding these two unrelated ideas and even more has been said about how these two ideas must be viewed. Can merit be a matter of equality? Are we all of equal merit based on our gender? Does the idea that we have to assume merit is…
Is it time we started to have a look at exactly how our economic model works? How our government’s position within that model works? And how we can extricate government from economy in general? I theorise that if your government is the driving engine for economic growth your economy has failed, simply government spending has…
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