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June 20, 2011
Obvious Businesses put profit ahead of good policy, beware. See: anti carbon tax lobbying (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
June 17, 2011
Obvious Chris Lilley not funny (The Age) Leave a comment
June 10, 2011
Obvious Non-partisan productivity commission finds carbon tax the cheapest way to cut emissions (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
June 8, 2011
Obvious “Australian politicians happily demonise asylum seekers for political gain” (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
June 7, 2011
Obvious Individual impact of carbon price would be minimal (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious “Malaysian Solution” incredibly unpopular (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
June 3, 2011
Obvious People who’ve served their time should be allowed to sell books about it (particularly when they served time because of torture and arbitrary detention) (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
June 2, 2011
Obvious Gillard (somewhat clumsily) calls Abbott on scare tactics (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
May 27, 2011
Obvious Abbott’s strategy: shun policy, avoid interviews where you might get asked questions about the shunning of policy (The Age) Leave a comment
May 26, 2011
Obvious Australia’s confused solar policy lacks energy (Conversation) Leave a comment
May 23, 2011
Obvious Gillard might not be popular, but she’s still more popular than Abbott (The Australian) Leave a comment
May 18, 2011
Obvious Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers (NY Times) Leave a comment
May 16, 2011
Obvious Labor better at managing money than the Coalition. So, wtf does the Coalition bring to the table? (Other than racism, of course) (The Australian) Leave a comment
May 13, 2011
Obvious Religious education in public schools actually about proselytising? Who knew? (Other than everyone…) (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious As alternate PM, Abbott seems to have… well, pretty much no ideas (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious That bastion of debauched lefties, the OECD, says families are better off under Gillard than the Libs. Just don’t expect News Ltd to mention that. (The West Australian) Leave a comment
May 12, 2011
Obvious Families earning $150k+ are not doing it tough. Perhaps they should spend less time whining, more time working out they don’t really need the second Merc. (We are all dead) Leave a comment
May 4, 2011
Obvious First Liberal Government budget in Victoria makes middle-income families pay… Just for something different. (Age) Leave a comment
April 28, 2011
Obvious Gun control saves lives (proof! numbers!), but the gun lobby wants less of it (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
April 20, 2011
Obvious Brendan O’Connor speaks in support of R18+ classification for games, using arguments coined by Gamers4Croydon (BKoP Original) Leave a comment
April 15, 2011
Obvious Atlus Shrugged, the movie of the ideology that, via Alan Greenspan, brought you the global financial crisis (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
April 14, 2011
Obvious If being Australian means turning your back on desperate addicts in the name of multi-billion-dollar profits, maybe we should consider moving overseas (The Punch) Leave a comment
April 8, 2011
Obvious If anti-smoking initiatives aren’t going to work, why are tobacco companies spending big to oppose them? (The Age) Leave a comment
April 7, 2011
Obvious Religious ‘freedoms’ being used to discriminate (The Punch) Leave a comment
April 5, 2011
Obvious A very long-winded  way of say “enough with the Godwins, already” (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
March 4, 2011
Obvious “Politics in Australia has officially gone weird, and most of the weirdness has been coming from the conservative side, with a fair degree of tastelessness thrown in” (The Punch) Leave a comment
February 23, 2011
Obvious Survey says: Australians are pretty damned xenophobic (comments section: “I’m not racist, but…”) (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
February 22, 2011
Obvious Gerard Henderson doesn’t like the Greens? Fancy that. (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
February 21, 2011
Obvious Power prices to soar independent of carbon tax (by much less than would be caused by carbon tax) (The Age) Leave a comment
Obvious Liberal backbencher: pollies should lrn2internet (The Australian) Leave a comment
February 16, 2011
Obvious Lack of democracy within Labor will cause it to wither (while the Greens will feast on its remains) (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
February 2, 2011
Obvious Mining companies don’t like current IR laws anywhere near as much as the ones that let them walk all over employees (The Australian) Leave a comment
January 25, 2011
Obvious Breaking: if we keep living unsustainably, things will get worse. Also, populations increase! (The Australian) Leave a comment
January 24, 2011
Obvious East Timor refugee processing centre gets even more popular in East Timor (The Age) Leave a comment
January 6, 2011
Obvious Majority support for voluntary euthanasia, even among Christians (The Age) Leave a comment
December 20, 2010
Obvious “Clean” coal isn’t realistic? Y’don’t say. (The Australian) Leave a comment
December 14, 2010
Obvious Wait, free trade isn’t magical? Who’d have thought. Y’know, aside from all those people who aren’t wingnuts. (The Age) Leave a comment
December 1, 2010
Obvious Banks were lying about being under the pump? Y’don’t say. (The Age) Leave a comment
November 22, 2010
Obvious Polling: Even Coalition voters want The Gay to get married (The Age) Leave a comment
November 8, 2010
Obvious Petrol companies gouging? No shit. (The West Australian) Leave a comment
November 2, 2010
Obvious Bowen: “We already have the toughest mandatory detention regime in the Western developed world, yet people still come to Australia” – Getting tougher won’t work (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 26, 2010
Obvious Howard dodges shoes, questions (The Age) Leave a comment
October 20, 2010
Obvious Big miners looking for excuses to renege on tax deal. Surprise! (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 11, 2010
Obvious Hockey lied about costings? I’m shocked. Truly. (The Age) Leave a comment
October 8, 2010
Obvious In response to Devine’s derp (Pure Poison - Crikey) Leave a comment
October 5, 2010
Obvious Labor’s ‘scare campaign’ on Work Choices seems prescient, with some Libs already back to spruiking it (The Australian) Leave a comment
September 9, 2010
Obvious Apparently Labor is struggling in Queensland (Courier Mail) Leave a comment
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