Bill Shorten Plenty of voters will be wishing they had more of a choice when they vote in the federal election on Saturday, May 18. Let’s be perfectly clear about this: when we say the two major parties stink it’s a comment on their head offices and not on individualRead more »
You’ve got to feel for the 220 people who will lose their jobs if Kimberly-Clark goes ahead with its shock decision to relocate to Asia. It’s all very well to say we live in a world where change is the only thing we can be certain of and that theseRead more »
Now that the dust has settled from the NSW election we can begin to look at how the next four years shapes up under a third term Coalition government. As we congratulate Gladys Berejiklian in becoming the first woman to be elected premier of our great state, we note forRead more »
It’s turning out to be quite an election, thanks to final week gaffes and other horrors from the frontline of campaigning. Michael Daley’s $3 billion TAFE shocker, combined with the leaking of his anti-Asian sentiments, have made the Labor party’s job of winning a little harder, but they haven’t reallyRead more »
Campbelltown has never looked better. Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for; hearing that in a particular location in Sydney the powers to be were considering calling it a “recreational hub’’ a councillor from another area piped up: yep, that would be right, in that place aRead more »
Apparently the banking royal commission cost $1 billion dollars of our hard earned money. One billion dollars to tell us the banks and other financial institutions are greedy bastards. If the authorities whose job it is to regulate banks did their job we would have saved that billion dollars. ButRead more »
With not one but two elections coming up this year, 2019 is shaping up as a big challenge to that cynical cohort of our species also known as voters. And who could blame them. It’s not so much that the system is broken, that ain’t the case. The cynicism comesRead more »
They’re long gone now but I will be eternally grateful to my parents for migrating to Australia. Apparently it was a toss-up between Canada and Australia and I am so happy Down Under came up on top. As I learned all about its history after arriving in August 1966, aRead more »
Gird your loins fellow voters, this is going to be a tough year at the office. First cab off the rank is the NSW state election on Saturday, March 23 when Gladys Berejiklian will face the voters. Five or six weeks later Prime Minister Scott Morrison will also have hisRead more »
When the year’s almost over and a new one about to start is a pretty good time for a little reflection. We all know 2018 has been a year of highs and lows but what’s important is that we got through it and here we are on another Christmas EveRead more »
Within two hours of yesterday’s announcement that a local A-League team would play out of Campbelltown Sports Stadium two former mayors sent text messages. Former mayor 1: “The question to ask the GM/Mayor is how much is it going to cost the ratepayers to upgrade the stadium to the requiredRead more »
The Macarthur region was dealt a heavy blow with the Government’s Western Sydney Cities Deal, argues the Labor member for Macarthur, DR MIKE FREELANDER. This deal, once again, proved that the State and Federal Liberal National governments have the wrong priorities for Macarthur. In recent years South West Sydney hasRead more »
