This is as good an example as any of the problems that are bound to bedevil the 2020 summit:
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has been excluded from the list of 1,000 delegates selected to generate ideas about the nation’s future, despite requesting a place at the summit.
AMA president Rosanna Capolingua has expressed concerns that organisers […]

According to Kevin Rudd, he’s not due to speak to Barack Obama until tomorrow.
However, I’m afraid the prime minister is being less than frank. It’s clear that the two men have already spoken, and that the 21st century Kennedy has been convinced by Kevin’s brilliant electoral tactics, at least if Obama spokesman Josh Earnest is […]

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Remember when the Brits withdrew from Basra? It seems like only yesterday … units with romantic names like King’s Own Fusiliers and Black Watch and Seventh Hussars paraded out of the town … it only needed Prince Harry’s presence to add the occasion to the pantheon of Great British Military Events. Because when you’re a […]

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I was trying to be positive about the 2020 envisioning thing, I really was.
Until I read that Miranda Devine is a member of the mob considering ‘Future of Australian Governance’.
Miranda Devine!!!!!

I guess she got a guernsey in the name of ‘balance’, once Phillip Adams was invited.
Both, I’m sure, will bring brilliantly innovative ideas […]

Not many bands cover Status Quo songs. Haha the person who snarked “You mean they wrote more than one?” You are showing your ignorance … before the Quo became an electric oompah band they actually wrote some interesting songs, one of which has been covered by Camper van Beethoven.

I much prefer the original but that’s […]

You remember the justification for Teh Surge? Yes I know, it’s a stupid name for what military folk have been doing since forever when they’re in trouble, namely ’sending reinforcements’. But announcing he was sending reinforcements to something he insists on calling a war would suggest that Bush thought his imperial legions were in […]

David Kay was the guy President Bush put in charge of finding Saddam’s WMD once the dictator was removed from power. Kay headed the Iraq Survey Group but quit before it finished its work. The final report — which clearly states the Saddam’s WMD program ended years before the invasion — was done […]

At last the opposition has shaken off its post-election tristesse and bounced back to the Great Policy Debate. And the inspiration, as I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, is PM-in-waiting Malcolm Turnbull*.
Malcolm has come up with ‘the first significant policy proposal by the Coalition since it lost government four months ago’, according […]