Victoria Rollison's Blog, page 21
August 24, 2013
An Open Letter to Journalists at News Ltd
Dear News Ltd Journalists, I’m writing you this letter on behalf of all Australians. That includes everyone who can vote in the upcoming election, as well as those too young to have a say in their own future. I wanted to let you know that your behaviour throughout the election campaign has been appalling. I […]
August 22, 2013
Talking about my generation
I was thinking the other day about my generation, or the people I come into contact with from my generation, and how little they care about politics. This isn’t surprising. Not everyone can be interested in every minute detail of the political process like I am. But what concerns me is not just how little […]
August 13, 2013
Something is missing
There’s something missing from this election campaign. It’s not missing in my mind, but it seems to be missing from 95% of the political coverage of this election. We finally have some policy discussion, and the Liberals are being forced to provide a few details for policies they’ve been talking about for years. We even […]
July 27, 2013
An easy life
How easy my life would be if I were a Greens supporter. I’m not saying this in a sarcastic way. I’m deadly honest. Life would be so much easier if I just gave up on Labor and became a Green instead. Think of all the challenging conversations I could avoid if I chose not to […]
July 19, 2013
A Wicked Problem. A Wicked Solution?
When Kevin Rudd announced Labor’s new asylum seeker policy yesterday, my knee-jerk reaction was to be very concerned. Kevin Rudd and his Labor colleagues obviously desperately want to win the election, as I hope they do. But the last thing I want to see is Rudd winning by adopting Abbott’s right wing policies– that’s not […]
July 12, 2013
House of cards
Dear Tony Abbott, You probably get a lot of letters from both admirers and those seeking to criticise every facet of your existence. I am one of the latter. You might recall I’ve written to you before. Last time I wrote I told you about how concerned I was that you weren’t getting proper scrutiny […]
July 5, 2013
Too little too late
The switch has been flicked. Extraordinary. I have seen more reporting of government policy in mainstream press over the last week than I saw in the last three years. This is probably an exaggeration, but isn’t perception reality? All I remember seeing throughout 2010 to 2013 was yet another report about Gillard’s ‘unstable grip on […]
June 27, 2013
An Open Letter to the Australian Financial Review
To the Australian Financial Review, I wanted to make you aware of the behavior of one of your columnists which is damaging your brand. I was also going to tell you that this columnist is diminishing public decency in Australia, however I don’t think you care much about that, so let’s stick with your brand. […]
June 22, 2013
An Open Letter to Mike Carlton
Dear Mike Carlton As is often the case when I write letters to people, I am writing to you as a representative of a greater group. I think you can guess who this group might be. The Ruddites. It would be inaccurate for me to say I always read your column in the SMH because […]
June 21, 2013
It is official.
It’s official. The mainstream media has gone stark raving mad. This article was published in the Age today: For the sake of the nation, Ms Gillard should stand aside Let me preface this post by saying that I take great pride in writing a blog using my own name. I am Victoria Rollison and these […]
