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We are building a definitive list of those people on Twitter who inform us, investigate for us and advocate for us, who are not paid to do so and are outside of standard media or organisations. We are doing this so that we can all not only follow them on Twitter, but support them financially too so as [...]

Jobs, Growth and Affordable Housing. Here's my plan to achieve it

OK, I spent too long this morning debating with COSBOA (Council of Small Business Australia) on Twitter the penalty rates issue. Check out my timeline this morning if interested in that. Anyhow, long story short, they were more interested in the dodgy ‘trade’ the odious shoppies did than the actual [...]

For those interested, this was the COSBOA debate I had on Twitter this morning about Small Business and Penalty Rates.

A few days ago I read a piece by Peter Hartcher called “It's heyday for the hatemongers, but Malcolm Turnbull can hold the middle” and yes I will admit, I’m not a fan of Hartcher’s analysis. Quite frankly, I can usually feel the condescension oozing from the page on all his pieces and it grates [...]

Australia is supposed to be a classless society with all of us being equal in the eyes of the law and Justice is supposed to be blind? Supposed to be.

There are 204 pages in the "Independent Parliamentary Entitlements System Review February 2016", including 36 recommendations. I would strongly suggest that anyone who is interested in the rorting we have seen reported in recent days actually read the whole review.

I absolutely shudder to think what the turnout of our population would be if we did not have compulsory voting. Hopefully we wouldn’t end up with a megalomaniac reality TV star like the US has. Though knowing us, we would end up with some ridiculous entitled Sports Star who can’t think for thems [...]

The nbn seems to have gone quiet again in the media, yet, many are still waiting for it. We need to know if you are speeding along the information super highway or crawling along the interwebz at a frustrating snails pace?