policy

Media Circus: USA Convention Season Edition

By tigtog on 2016-07-27 • ( 4 )

What might Hillary really be thinking? How about Michelle?

Here in Oz, buckle up for more Brandis Equivocation-Watch.

Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

Media Circus: still all about Craig Thomson?

By tigtog on 2012-05-23 • ( 15 )

So what else is going on in Canberra? Or the state capitals? Or your local council? Are they all on the austerity bandwagon, having drunk the Austrian Kool-Aid like the Dems in the USA? Or is something progressive/constructive actually going on in your part of the world?

Media circus vs policy

By tigtog on 2012-05-08 • ( 7 )

Another week, another slew of personality-conflict and MP-scandal headlines. Who’d think it was Budget week in Canberra, eh? Discuss actual policy here, if you like. Or just heave brickbats at the worst of the circus acts, if you prefer.

Secular Sermon Quicklink: Getting Rich Is a Group Effort

By tigtog on 2011-09-25 • ( 5 )

Taxpayer-funded infrastructure and services are essential to the social stability that allows entrepreneurism to flourish. Try doing it without a robust law and order system which protects one’s individual rights under contract!