Victoria Rollison's Blog, page 17
May 16, 2014
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
As the dust settles from Tuesday night’s wrecking ball budget, I have been thinking about how this happened. How is it possible that Australia was conned into voting for Abbott and his fellow Liberal and National psychopaths? There’s a fairly obvious answer to this, and two clear culprits. First of all, Abbott and his LNP […]
May 12, 2014
At What Cost?
As we await the release of tomorrow’s Federal Budget, it would appear in Abbott-land, not all promises are born equal. The promise to return the budget to surplus is clearly far more important to Abbott than promises not to cut welfare, health and education funding. Another priority promise appears to be the promise to ‘stop. […]
May 2, 2014
Mining tax take two
Look, I don’t mean to sound like Wayne Swan did anything wrong when he released the mining tax four years to this day. Because clearly history will show the mining tax was great for Australia. And especially this week, after the release of the Tea-Party-like Commission of Audit, we have seen exactly why the mining […]
April 25, 2014
Another Open Letter to Tony Abbott
Dear Tony Abbott I’m writing to you again with the knowledge that you clearly haven’t read my previous correspondence, including this letter, this letter and this video. Since I wrote those letters, you have gone from my worst nightmare as an Opposition Leader, to an even worse nightmare of a Prime Minister. Yet, as I […]
April 17, 2014
Simple minds
Politics is a complex beast. The vast majority of Australians don’t want to even think about how complex it is, let alone read articles about this complexity. Which I assume is why the vast majority of political journalists and commentators in this country make it their mission to tame this complex beast into black and […]
April 16, 2014
Words matter
Words matter. When things happens in politics, the tone of how events are reported, the words that are used, and the way situations are framed are not organised by random. The mainstream media chooses the words they use very carefully. Today the media have presented their preferred frame for the resignation of Barry O’Farrell as: […]
April 4, 2014
Pinks Batts and Red Tape are not naughty words
The LNP government are experts at using a carefully selected set of ‘naughty, bad, bad Labor’ words to frame an issue to their advantage. They work hard to keep these words negative for Labor, to wed them to bad connotations, and to insert them into any situation, especially when they’re on the back foot. Negative […]
March 21, 2014
The Missing Ingredients
There have been some great contributions covering the March in March on the AIMN and other independent news and blog sites during the week. And not surprisingly, many of them are critical of the lack of coverage this national grass roots protest movement received in the mainstream media. Before I am accused of being a […]
March 15, 2014
Marching for my community
Today I marched with my community at March in March Adelaide, and was honoured to have a chance to speak. Here is my speech: Thank you to the organisers of March in March for inviting me to speak today. If you’re wondering who I am, I’m one of you. I’m not a politician. I’m not […]
February 24, 2014
An Open Letter to Scott Morrison
Dear Scott Morrison, You’ve probably guessed that this is not fan mail. I’m sure you do have fans, but I don’t think there would be many game enough to admit it after your recent behaviour. Trolls perhaps, but not people. Why not people, you may ask? Succinctly, because no person with a shred of humanity, […]
