The Commonwealth Bank posted a $10.9 billion profit and the ABC invited outrage. Jeremy Cordeaux asks the obvious question: do you really want banks to lose money?
If the government warns Australians not to visit certain countries for their safety, Jeremy Cordeaux asks why the same risk judgement is not applied to migration from them.
From the Battle of Long Tan and Vietnam Veterans Day to the Battle of Britain, Robert Redford and Winx, Jeremy Cordeaux marks everything that happened on 18 August.
The PM announced a $2.5 billion bailout for the Tomago smelter. Jeremy Cordeaux says Labor’s own energy policy broke a business that used to pay for itself.
Jeremy Cordeaux says the Bondi attack was about immigration and hate preaching, not legal firearms, and warns new gun laws punish the law-abiding while ignoring illegal guns.
The Minister said there was no money for the over-65s health rebate. Jeremy Cordeaux points to a $2.6 billion gun buyback that crushes firearms taken from law-abiding citizens.
For a week the country talked about melons. Jeremy Cordeaux says “melon-gate” was a media smokescreen that buried the questions that actually matter.
A hundred service stations closed for illicit tobacco, but Jeremy Cordeaux says the excise that makes a legal packet cost $60 is what created the black market.
The opposition wants to cut the building code from 2,000 pages to 80. Jeremy Cordeaux asks how it grew so big, and dreams of the same for 17,000 pages of tax law.
Sketched on an envelope at $13 billion, the NDIS now runs at $50 billion and is heading for $100 billion. Jeremy Cordeaux asks why no minister will take responsibility.