• Abbott, Jones & the Convoy of Crackpots

    Gillard might not have all the answers – and by christ she has a lot to answer for – but at least she is moving in the right direction, encouraging new investment and technologies while Abbott’s coterie of denialists defend the 21st-century’s equivalent of the horse-and-cart: the fossil fuel industry

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  • Massacre in Paris

    Massacre in Paris

    How is the United States of Amnesia (Gore Vidal’s perfect descriptor) managing its war on a pronoun as declared by the retired war criminal and world famous idiot George Dubya Bush and his claque Let’s look at the root cause.

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  • 2013 FEDERAL ELECTION AUSTRALIA

    “…I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn’t inhale.” – Tony Abbott, Health Minister, Howard Era/Error, July 25 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald

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  • A Budget to die for!

    A Budget to die for!

    I checked out the online news of Scum Morrison’s 2016 Budget and got no further than “Mr Morrison said…” before my gag reflex kicked in

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  • Culture War IS Class War!

    As another inevitably unfair LIEbral Budget looms, Aussie voters are being told by disdainful, privileged, self-entitled ultra-con politicians to “live within your means” in order to bail out the failing Turnbull/Abbott government By Max Gross

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  • Turnbull’s ABCC/DD Circus

    DESPERATE BUT NOT SERIOUS Written by Max Gross, 21 April 2016 The reign of muddling Malcolm Turnbull PM looks set to be more fleeting than even that of the abysmal Tony Abbott.

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  • Occupy Wall Street, Educate Main Street

    USA FOLLOWS SAUDI REFORM LEAD! Written by Max Gross First published Monday, 26 September 2011 Across the Middle East common folk continue to demonstrate their outrage against generations of tyranny imposed by entrenched and unaccountable power cliques supported by U.S. interests.

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  • AmeriKKKan Psycho!

    AmeriKKKan Psycho!

    Is the USA about to be trumped? If so, BYO bucket and mop, people! By Max Gross

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  • Long Live Democracy! Down with Terrorism!

    COMMEMORATING THE ATROCITIES OF SEPTEMBER 11… 1973! Written by Max Gross, Wednesday, 11 September 2002  It was a clear sunny day. People went innocently about their business. Without warning, death plunged from the sky. Screaming aircraft shattered the building, sowing cruel death, injury and horror.

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  • Remember the Terror of 11 September

    WE ARE ALL EQUAL IN DEATH Written by Max Gross First published Thursday, 11 September 2003  Let’s commemorate the victims of terrorism. But let’s not cherry-pick among the dead or get fussy with our grief and moral outrage. It was 30 years ago today, on 11 September 1973, that President Salvador Allende Gossens of Chile was killed in a…

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