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By Dave Munro According to Miles Kemp of The Advertiser and published via News Corporations AdelaideNow on June 17 2011 “People with Ned Kelly tattoos are nearly eight times more likely to have been murdered”. This insightful piece of information was provided to the public because “University of Adelaide Professor Roger Byard studied the causes…
By Dave Munro What is a Bill of Rights? What does it mean and why doesn’t the Australian government want it? Probably the most famous Bill of Rights is the American version. The Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution are known. They were introduced…
By theissue.com.au on Feb 27th, 2013
By Kevin Glancy There’s no doubt that we could always spend more money on education as long as there is accountability but as we know the Gillard Government likes to throw our money around in that general direction and with little result. Despite the billions of dollars spent, with much of it wasted on building…
By Dave Munro Much is touted about the freedoms we have living in Australia. We believe we are one of the most free societies in the world and we tend to frown on human rights abuses in other countries. There seems to be a constant stream of refugees from war torn countries seeking asylum in…
By Dave Munro I like to walk; you know, leave the bike at home and use my legs to propel myself forward. I must look a sight to some of the Lycra clad crowd that sweat their way around the nation’s capital, the fat bald bloke covered in tatts and in need of a shave….
By theissue.com.au on Feb 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Piers Akerman/Daily Telegraph: For more articles by Piers go to; http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/ By Piers Akerman –, Thursday, February, 21, 2013, (6:33am) THE Prime Minister pro tem Julia Gillard has been forced to restore a $107 million cut to Victorian hospitals. Typically, the Gillard government has lied about the action. In doing so, the disgraceful…
By theissue.com.au on Feb 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of Piers Akerman/Daily Telegraph: For more articles by Piers go to; http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/piersakerman/ By Piers Akerman – Thursday, February, 21, 2013, (7:31pm) IT seems like yesterday but it was in fact last October when then immigration minister Chris Bowen wrung his hands and cited the deaths at sea of more than 1060 people trying to…
By theissue.com.au on Feb 16th, 2013
By Kevin Glancy In a recent Senate Estimates hearing it was announced that the government-owned Future Fund had invested $221 million in 15 tobacco companies. The most recent investment was the purchase of tobacco stock in May 2012 in the Czech Republic division of Philip Morris. Now something doesn’t make sense. This is the same…
By theissue.com.au on Feb 16th, 2013
Friday’s editorial in the Daily Telegraph is one of the best I have seen – and with respect well written, it perfectly sums up the inadequacy of the Labor government in two critical policy areas. I hope the editor doesn’t mind that I feature it again here for an international audience as it is a…
By theissue.com.au on Feb 9th, 2013
By Kevin Glancy One should never underestimate Professor David E. Flint AM, particularly when he is on a mission. Quietly spoken, articulate and highly intelligent, David’s passion for the challenge ahead lies just under the surface but there’s no mistaking its presence. As our conversation turns towards the task at hand it begins to burn…
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