$3.57 a day? Don’t Spend It All At Once!

2021/02/23 · by infinite8horizon | in Commentary, Longform, Not funny at all alas, Politics, society | tagged coalition, conservative, covid, cpi, cruelty, jobkeeper, jobseeker, Morrisson, mutual-obligation, newstart, poverty-line, social contract, social welfare, unemployment, vacancies | 2 Comments

$3.57 a day? Don’t Spend It All At Once! Or, buy a weekday copy of The Australian for $3.50 to find out how much of a dole bludger you are. Morrison’s cruel, unnecessary drop in benefits.

Speechless with horror and disgust

2014/08/30 · by infinite8horizon | in Commentary, Longform, Not funny at all alas, Politics | tagged ABC, asylum, auspol, budget, climate change, corruption, CSIRO, education, environment, fossil_fuel, fourth_estate, gonski, health, immigration, medicare, murdoch, one-term tony, press, privatisation, renewable_energy, science, social welfare, vilification | 1 Comment

I’ve posted very little for some time now, not been because there’s been nothing to say, but rather because there has been so much to say I’ve been speechless. I’m speechless at the hypocrisy of the current government. I’m speechless at their casual, brutal disregard for the truth. I’m speechless at the sneering, arrogant cynicism […]

Unsustainable – code for “we’re going to cut it”

2014/02/24 · by infinite8horizon | in Commentary, Longform, Politics | tagged auspol, budget, climate change, education, honest joe, incredible pyne, medicare, mining, one-term tony, pensions, social welfare, unsustainable | 2 Comments

Unsustainable. It seems every other Ministerial press release suddenly uses the word. It sounds dire, with vague threats of looming disaster, but without more information it’s just a word to scare children, or to excuse cuts. Before the election, there were promises aplenty not to cut the core social services – health, education, welfare. Suddenly, after […]