Stone the crows! Who says Australian industry can’t compete? Why when it comes to self-defeating stunts our workers united will never be defeated. Last week workers at Toyota went on strike for more money. Their union wants 12 per cent over 36 months while the company is offering 11 per cent over 39 months.[i] David [...]
The GOP’s battle of the blands STONE the crows! It’s the start of the circus season in the US. No, not the “political circus” President Obama wants to stop.[i] This largely consists of Republican congressional clowns not doing what Democrat funsters demand. The performance the Crows are consumed by is the three ring circus of [...]
Stone the Crows! Things are crook. What with the way we are just sooo stressed![i] Not to mention that working families are going broke due to the high cost of everything.[ii] It is astonishing how Australians find things to whinge about. Certainly the ill, indigent and unlucky do it unjustly tough. But for the generality [...]
STONE the crows! Now actors as well as artificers are playing the protectionist card! Last week, heavy industry union leaders and lobbyists for film and TV content makers argued for government assistance to protect jobs. Both demands demonstrate the truth of the old political adage that in politics when the policy players are absolutely sick [...]
Stone the crows! The Asian hordes that Andrew Fisher wanted a navy to protect us from are running a century late, but they’re finally on the way. [i] Well sort of, what with Japan being the worry then and China starting its first aircraft carrier’s sea trials now. [ii] But the crows aren’t all that [...]
STONE the crows! The deficit has become a diet. People who know they need to lose weight but are light on for willpower always have a very good reason why they can’t cut the calories. Which is where we are with the deficit. Not that long ago the Gillard Government guaranteed a return to surplus [...]
STONE the crows! The Tea Party is triumphant – at least according to experts assessing the outcome of the fight in Congress over the US Government’s debt ceiling. Like the Washington Post, which called the long stand-off before a deal was finally done a win for the Republican ginger group, the Tea Party, not least [...]
STONE the crows! It seems Stephen Smith is talking softly and carrying a biggish anti-aircraft stick. The first is standard operating procedure for the Defence Minister, whose profile is so low that he regularly operates under the political radar. But the specialists noticed, as the Minister obviously intended, when Mr Smith went to Washington (sorry) [...]
Think globally, ignore locally STONE the crows! When will Australians understand we are ruining the environment by ducking the great moral challenges of our age, dryland salinity and erosion? Oops, wrong crises, sorry about that. Of course global warming is now the disaster de jour. Understandably so, a planetary catastrophe caused by capitalism is so [...]
Trouble at teatime STONE the crows! Politics is collapsing into chaos with shouting matches utterly independent of the policy questions they are ostensibly about. In Australia, carbon tax/trading has become a metaphor for the sort of stoush we last saw in Pauline Hanson’s hey-day with hysterics on both sides of the argument accusing their opponents [...]
