A Warning on Tomorrow’s Unemployment Figures
With the ABS releasing the May employment data tomorrow via its monthly Labour Force Survey, it might be worth pulling the rug out from under the inevitable stupidity that has accompanied the media...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Professional Reputation?
Roy Morgan has just released my favourite poll of theirs – public perceptions of ethics and honesty for various professions. They ask the following question: As I say different occupations, could you...
View ArticleYou’d have to be a lead poisoned crackhead to believe this.
There’s an awful lot of twaddle doing the rounds with the Ozcar thing – but this takes the cake. Over at The Oz, Glenn Milne and his “sources” would have us believe that the infamous exchange between...
View ArticleNews Ltd Mea Culpa?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, the post is blank. And unfortunately, despite what happened today in Parliament, it will probably remain this way.
View ArticlePeak Wingnut
In his continuing quest for relevance, Andrew Bolt went blogbaiting yesterday. It was the usual wingnut bingo board – ABC, Crikey, leftist conspiracies, Jonathan Green, Eric Beecher, Annabel Crabb –...
View ArticleMore Higgins Nonsense
Anyone else getting sick and tired of the rampant nonsense being peddled about the Higgins by-election result? Just to pick a random perpetrator, Tim Colebatch – a normally sensible person – thought...
View ArticleWhat does The Australian think about business regulation costs?
What does The Australian think about business regulation costs? Would they believe, perhaps: Small businesses are unhappy at the time and expense in maintaining inflexible award conditions. Tough Nope....
View ArticleTony Abbott – Running With Scissors
Fresh from the virginity quips – which, as one of you lot pointed out in comments, makes us wonder when we’re going to get a “Better Party to Manage” poll on that issue – comes a new episode of Tony...
View ArticlePerspective
In 2008, Australia had 161 boat people arrive. In 2008, Australia had 4750 applications for asylum submitted. In 2008, France, the UK and Italy combined had 96,870 applications for asylum submitted. In...
View ArticleBeware the substance of nothing
Today’s Newspoll result shows the Labor Party with an election winning lead of 52% to 48% on the two party preferred, with a margin of error of +/- 3%. This is a one point gain to Labor from the...
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