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Media Circus: do union officials really face no penalties for embezzlement, or is the Opposition wasting everybody’s time edition

By tigtog on 2012-11-26 • ( 36 )

What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

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?

Numbers in the House

By tigtog on 2012-04-23 • ( 2 )

Speculation abounds as to whether the Gillard minority government will have the numbers on the House floor to pass the Budget on May 8 without Peter Slipper’s vote, especially since Andrew Wilkie remains rather miffed.

Not a happy camper

By tigtog on 2011-08-24 • ( 25 )

The prospect of the current Gillard-led coalition government falling because of some petty fraud surrounding “adult entertainment” for an MP appals me so much that I’m just burying myself in work.

Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes: what did they expect?

By tigtog on 2011-01-17 • ( 12 )

Say what? Gervais got famous by making people uncomfortable at why they are laughing at his material, by deliberately crossing boundaries of “good taste”, and he also has a mean streak. This is not A Great Big Showbiz Secret.