Author Archives: Kathryn Crosby
Lets talk about sexism against men
One of the more disappointing parts of this gender war the PM seems to love stoking is the many voices that say things like ‘they wouldn’t treat her like that if she were a man’. Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick and her predecessor and now NSW Minister for Women Pru Goward were among the more prominent […]
You really wanna put abortion on the table?
There has been much discussion since the – I think we can all agree disastrous – launch of the ‘Women for Labor’ campaign about whether abortion should be back on the table again or not. This flowed from Gillard’s quote “Finally but very importantly, we don’t want to live in an Australia where abortion again […]
Epic Gonski Fail?
I have a fairly straightforward question that I would really like answered. Seriously, not glib, partisan hackery… a really want an answer. How does one spend 14 BILLION in additional money on public schools and *not* get a political win out of that? I get that ‘more money for schools’ is a fairly normal election […]
Real issues do exist
There are moments in the electoral cycle where I find myself wondering what on earth all these people are whinging about, because there doesn’t seem to be a real issue in sight. Confected nonsense about potential damage from refugees or other immigrants stealing jobs, who lied or not, or some alleged character slur from 30 […]
Revival of 75 year old Aboriginal rights petition shows we haven’t done much
Aboriginal activist William Cooper’s petition to King George V, rejected by the Australian Government in 1938, is being revived 75 years later by his grandson who hopes that this time they will make it the monarch. The petition of Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia asked that the King intervene to ‘prevent the extinction of the Aboriginal […]
In reply: Political donations aren’t bribes by any name
This is probably the first proper ‘blog in reply’ on AusVotes2013, so I just want to make it very clear here right at the top that I have enormous respect for Ed, but I have a very different view from his position put forward in today’s post A Bribe By Any Other Name, so much […]
Why my money is still on another hung parliament
I know, I know, all those of you who didn’t already think I was certifiable have just joined the cult. A little over a year ago I said in multiple fora that I think we’re heading to another hung parliament result in 2013. I still think that. I am unmoved. 14 billion in additional spending on public […]
Are we intentionally increasing the burden on public health?
Pondering the budget papers from the Health Portfolio, I am moved to ask this question: are we intentionally moving people back out of private health and increasing the burden on the public health system? I appreciate it’s an ideological thing, but didn’t we just spend the last two decades doing the opposite? The cliff notes […]
If you don’t know how parliament works, don’t tweet photos of it.
I was more than a little annoyed the other day when, because Julia Gillard cried during the bill reading, the minor, procedural bill to change the Medicare levy by half a percent was suddenly changed into a big thing, and a photo of the Liberals not being there was circulated to show they didn’t really […]
I Call Bull on the Live Export Ban Call
*Battens down the hatches, stations the guards, enters the witness protection program, offers up pie as a bribe and clears throat* It appears to me that many who are part of the campaign to ban the live export of livestock seem to think there is a level of inevitability about it, the same way there […]
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