Recently, I was asked if I would consider standing as a councillor on our local Council. I laughed out loud. I’m pretty vocal in my own little community. I belong to an Owner’s Corporation that is only three years old. The inaugural committee at the time was pretty punitive in its approach, egged on by…
Tag: politics
The yin and yang of the week that was
So this is how my week has been: We withdrew Master J from school. Only a term before the end of VCE, only a term before the end of his entire 13 year career. We withdrew him because he could take it no longer. He could no longer endure the place that promised us that they…
Asylum seekers – the political ping pong of our time
I woke up this morning to find that Peter Dutton, our Minister for Immigration, had been on the campaign trail informing the good people of Australia that asylum seekers are illiterate and innumerate and would languish on the dole and take Australian jobs, thus justifying, poorly, the incarceration of these disenfranchised and displaced people of…
Dear Mr President, Barack Obama
I have watched in amazement, and with incredulous disbelief, the rise of that odious human being that is Donald Trump. I have American friends who refer to him as “the one who shall not be named” for fear of giving him even more power than his narcissistic self demands or deserves. I have watched YouTube…
MARRIAGE EQUALITY AND GOD
This is what I think about religion: I think that whatever faith you believe in is up to you. You choose to believe in a monotheist way of life and that is okay and entirely up to you. I believe wholeheartedly in the right of every single human being to believe in whatever it…
DEAR TONY ABBOTT : THE POWER OF THE AUSTRALIAN WOMAN
Dear Tony Abbott, I’m wondering if you have any political ambition at all, because you are certainly doing a superb job of ensuring the demise of your tenure as well as that of your party’s. This past Sunday, Mothers Day, you announced the proposal to reduce the Paid Parental Leave to mothers whose companies already…
Tony Abbot appoints Scott Morrison to the role of Ministry of Social Services – heaven help us all!
Let me be perfectly clear. Scott Morrison is a man who, until a couple of days ago, was the Immigration Minister in Australia. He is also personally responsible for the inhumane treatment of thousands of asylum seekers to this country. No matter what your views about the validity of asylum seekers who come to this…
At the heart of the Sydney Siege was Domestic Violence and a legal system that failed us
I was having lunch with a friend of mine when news of the Sydney Siege hit the television screen. My friend and I watched in disbelief at what was unfolding in Martin Place. When I got home, I immediately threw on the TV and had the commentary going on in the background trying to make…
Is Australia really facing a terror threat?
The news has been full today with images of police raids on homes in Guildford in Sydney and the arrest of one Omarjan Azari. This comes just days after Tony Abbott announced that Australia would be joining the US-led anti ISIS campaign in Iraq. It needs to be said that I am a cynical…
An Open Letter To Tony Abbott
Dear Tony, You don’t mind if I call you Tony do you? You and I need to talk. Seriously. What is going on? What is it that you are hoping to achieve by all these things that you keep doing and saying? I am genuinely curious to know. I am a fairly political person….