Victoria Rollison's Blog, page 8
July 5, 2016
Choosing aunty over mum and dad
So little Johnny, who is your favourite parent? Mummy or Daddy? Aunty Heather! I want Aunty Heather! Yes, this is a simplistic metaphor, but you get my point. The electorate’s, and coincidentally media’s growing love for any candidate who doesn’t come from a major party is akin to children picking their cool Aunty Heather over […]
July 2, 2016
What did we learn?
What did we learn Malcolm? We learned that the policies from Abbott’s 2014 budget have been comprehensively rejected by Australia. You chose to tinker round the edges by putting lipstick on the pig, but you didn’t actually change anything. Continuity of Abbott’s policies with a change of leader. Australians aren’t stupid. Voters saw through your […]
June 27, 2016
An Open Letter to Australian Voters
Dear Australia, Isn’t democracy fun? I know I’m a rarity in my love for politics but even if you hate politics, I still think elections can be fun. Think of your vote like a shopping trip, but instead of buying new shoes you’re going out to buy your future. What could be more fun than […]
June 24, 2016
The Disenchanted Brexit
In the ocean of Brexit analysis, here is my drop. I am going to oversimplify and stereotype and generalise all at once by saying the very obvious thing: Britain doing what Nigel Farage and Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson wanted isn’t just about an anti-immigration xenophobia agenda, although it is related to that. No, the […]
June 23, 2016
An Open Complaint to the ABC
Dear ABC I would like to make a complaint about numerous journalists over the past two days using the phrase ‘Mediscare campaign’. As a supporter of Australia’s universal healthcare system, who has watched the Liberal government first under Abbott and now under Turnbull chip away and chip away at Medicare in their ideological quest to […]
June 17, 2016
A Labor Candidate
As I stood next to Labor South Australian Senate candidate, Michael Allison, handing out how-to-vote cards at a local pre-polling booth, we had a chat about what inspired him to run for government. As we were chatting, I noticed the Nick Xenophon Team volunteer was wearing a traffic-light-sized badge claiming a vote for his party […]
June 8, 2016
I like businesses, but they can’t be in charge
Today a collection of business lobby groups have started an advertising campaign calling on voters to make an election issue of their election wish list: a company tax cut, ‘flexible’ industrial relations policies and less ‘red-tape’. Before I’m accused of being ‘anti-business’, let me just state right here that I’m not anti-business. Businesses are great. […]
They missed it… again!
Today Bill Shorten laid out his economic plan for the next 10 years. I’m sure you can guess how political journalists reacted? Did they report that finally a leader is looking ahead further than the next election? Nope. Did they explain the vision Shorten outlined to invest in the economy for the benefit of future […]
June 3, 2016
Keep Up Hartcher
It’s not surprising that Peter Hartcher is out of touch. In his Fairfax-protected-species-ivory-tower, where he refuses to engage with readers via social media in case he might actually learn something, once again he’s failed to realise we’ve all moved on from the bullshit ‘class war’ analogies he’s peppered his SMH column with today. If Hartcher […]
June 1, 2016
Liberals know they’re losing the argument
You can always tell when someone is losing an argument because they start shouting over their opponent, getting shriller and often more sensationalised, immature and, well, obvious in their losing position. These quotes from Morrison’s press conference today display such behaviour: ‘War on business’. ‘Using taxes as their bullets’. ‘Declare war on growth in our […]
