Alan Austin

Alan Austin is an Australian freelance journalist now living near Nîmes in the South of France. His special interests are the news media, religious affairs and economic and social issues which impact the disadvantaged.

Alan has written for many media outlets and been published in most Australian newspapers and online publications. He wrote the influential Uniting Church report on prisons in Victoria in the 1980s which led directly to the jailing of prison officers for drug offences. He worked for eight years with ABC Radio and Television’s religious broadcasts unit and seven years with World Vision. His most recent part-time appointment was with the Uniting Church magazine Crosslight.

Overseas, he has worked as journalist in Indonesia, China and now France.

Articles written by Alan Austin (532)

7 October 2024 | Economic outcomes destroy pro-Coalition media falsehoods — one by one
23 September 2024 | U.S. assaults surge as Trump’s hate escalates
16 September 2024 | Business is booming — defying newsroom doom and gloom
9 September 2024 | Latest snapshot of Albo’s economy defies mainstream media negativity
2 September 2024 | Chalmers on track to join Keating and Swan as world’s best treasurer
26 August 2024 | Jim Chalmers gets the boffins to measure what really matters
19 August 2024 | Press Council must do vastly better or be replaced
12 August 2024 | Well done Australia! Paris proves bipartisanship actually works
5 August 2024 | Some Australian families are struggling, but fewer than ever before
29 July 2024 | Facts and figures confirm Murdoch’s minions are continually lying to you
22 July 2024 | Logic shows Trump cannot win another term, but don’t relax just yet
15 July 2024 | Good global citizenship benefits everyone, especially the good global citizen
8 July 2024 | Life expectancy data reaffirms the horrors of a Trump Presidency
1 July 2024 | Abject failures of Australian media laid bare in Julian Assange’s return
24 June 2024 | Mainstream media warps reality to blame Labor for 'cost-of-living crisis'
17 June 2024 | The ABC subtly and systematically pushes a Liberal Party agenda
10 June 2024 | Data shows Queensland Labor's economy outperforms other states again
3 June 2024 | Lessons from COVID-19: Government inaction led to needless deaths
27 May 2024 | Can Labour’s Keir Starmer rebuild Britain’s battered economy?
20 May 2024 | Mainstream media fabricates disgraceful lies about Labor's Budget
13 May 2024 | Measuring a decade of reckless Liberal Party debt
6 May 2024 | Australia (and others) proving again that elections do lead to actual change
29 April 2024 | ABC News violates its own charter to ensure Labor loses the next election
22 April 2024 | Australia's fiscal health under Labor reaffirmed in latest IMF rankings
15 April 2024 | Deceitful media attacks on Labor under challenge by independent news sources
9 April 2024 | Manufacturing and construction jobs created as Australia defies global trends
2 April 2024 | America’s gun deaths lower despite Trump still urging violence
25 March 2024 | Remnants of the Coalition's horrific economic damage still linger today
18 March 2024 | Trump & Orbán: The deceptive allure of strong men in power
11 March 2024 | Despite media frenzy, Labor continues to lead economic metrics worldwide
4 March 2024 | Labor rebuilds Australia's international integrity decimated by the Coalition
26 February 2024 | The ABC continues to falsely trash Labor’s economic credentials
19 February 2024 | ABC's 'Nemesis' series whitewashes the Coalition's failures
12 February 2024 | No end in sight to ever-rising Indigenous incarceration numbers
5 February 2024 | 2024: A year when Trump (and others) will test the resilience of global democracy
29 January 2024 | Backtracking forwards: Hypocrisy over Labor's altered Stage 3 tax cuts
22 January 2024 | 'Holy havoc' as churches are dragged into the 20th Century
16 January 2024 | America’s political killings surge as Trump’s hate speech intensifies
27 December 2023 | #9 TOP IA STORY OF 2023: ABC complaint over Insiders’ collaboration with Murdoch’s News Corp
18 December 2023 | Trump’s 'greatest economy': A lie that could end America's experiment
11 December 2023 | GDP growth numbers show Australian workers steadily gaining
4 December 2023 | ABC complaint over Insiders’ collaboration with Murdoch’s News Corp
27 November 2023 | While the media lies and distorts, Chalmers gets on with the job
20 November 2023 | AFR fudges figures to foment anti-Albanese fervour
13 November 2023 | U.S. violence surges as Trump and Murdoch cash in on anger and hatred
30 October 2023 | Getting away with murder: Time to go after the tax evasion 'sharks'
23 October 2023 | Coalition and Dutton must pay price for destroying Indigenous aspirations
16 October 2023 | The tragic history of Coalition betraying Indigenous Australians
10 October 2023 | Pope Francis kicks open the church door to gay couples — at last
2 October 2023 | Under Labor, corporate executives to face 25 years gaol for workers killed
25 September 2023 | Labor’s Budget brings fairness and return to economic competence
18 September 2023 | Australia rewards its workers and rejoins the growth economies
4 September 2023 | Facing life in prison, Donald Trump fuels racial violence in the USA
28 August 2023 | IAREM 2023: Norway's 'mixed' economy leads as Australia plays catch up
21 August 2023 | Global wealth report confirms Coalition incompetence right to the end
14 August 2023 | Albanese’s team making progress on Whitlam’s promise to women
7 August 2023 | Morrison Government viciously cut Australian aid to poorest of the poor
31 July 2023 | Australia's media watchdog not holding News Corp to account
24 July 2023 | OECD accused of pressuring Albanese Government to weaken tax evasion laws
18 July 2023 | Contrary to Coalition claims, business is booming across Australia
10 July 2023 | The saga of Donald Trump Jr Down Under
26 June 2023 | Cost of being sucked in by criminal grifters more than just money
19 June 2023 | Albo’s team sets employment records, despite job categories disappearing
12 June 2023 | Economy secure despite global turmoil, so time for a bold initiative
5 June 2023 | Locking in the benefits COVID offered to a troubled world
29 May 2023 | Economic recovery: Many economies now booming post-COVID
22 May 2023 | A decade of declining violence worldwide, except in the USA and Latin America
15 May 2023 | America’s humiliations just keep piling up
8 May 2023 | Australia finally joins global efforts to stop terrorists getting easy finance
1 May 2023 | Dazzling brilliance would be fantastic, but we’ll settle for steady competence
24 April 2023 | Latest evidence for Turnbull thesis good news for battered Americans
17 April 2023 | Urgent need for Australia to generate creative future housing solutions
11 April 2023 | News Corp condemned for malicious lies and attacks against minorities
3 April 2023 | Donald Trump’s upcoming trials divide America and the world
27 March 2023 | Nothing strange or dangerous about Trump’s next criminal convictions
20 March 2023 | Australia’s submarine deal is a disaster and we know who to blame
13 March 2023 | Murdoch presenters and executives admit they lie to you routinely
6 March 2023 | Labor can manage the economy, now let’s fix the inequalities
27 February 2023 | Prisoner numbers declining but Indigenous people still overrepresented
20 February 2023 | Companies chasing billions from Fox News for ‘malicious’ election lies
13 February 2023 | 'Dark money' still distorts Australian democracy
6 February 2023 | Kids now don’t want to vote (and other fun facts about Australian elections)
30 January 2023 | Australia’s renewed commitment to neighbourliness is saving lives
23 January 2023 | Jacinda calls time with the NZ economy performing among the world’s best
16 January 2023 | Gaoling a president is a helluva challenge, but sometimes it has to be done
10 January 2023 | World COVID leaders no longer: Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan down in 2022
19 December 2022 | Voters everywhere made the world a safer place in 2022
12 December 2022 | We expected an economic turnaround, but not this swiftly
6 December 2022 | Calculating the final toll of preventable Coalition construction deaths
28 November 2022 | Half a million needless deaths under Trump’s regime of anger, fear and hate
21 November 2022 | Hatred, greed and injustice surged in Australia — but a turnaround is coming
14 November 2022 | America’s destructive nightmare may soon be over
7 November 2022 | New Parliament, new Coalition leaders, same old lies
31 October 2022 | Calculating the cost of Coalition corruption
24 October 2022 | Brits facing ever-worsening poverty can be mightily thankful Liz Truss is going
17 October 2022 | Giorgia Meloni should return Italy to Middle-earth
9 October 2022 | Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
3 October 2022 | Australia’s wealth increased last year, but mostly for the rich
26 September 2022 | Detecting the cause of America's collapsing economy
19 September 2022 | No one knows what’s really happening in Ukraine — here’s why
12 September 2022 | Chalmers’ challenge just got a whole lot scarier
6 September 2022 | Raise the corporate tax rate and kill three birds with one stone
29 August 2022 | Russia may defeat Ukraine — but at incalculable human cost
22 August 2022 | Jobs summit offers chance to reverse disastrous Coalition decisions
15 August 2022 | America descends steadily into a deadly dystopia
8 August 2022 | New Treasurer sets cracking pace on chasing foreign tax cheats
1 August 2022 | Rupert Murdoch abandons Trump — here's why it matters
25 July 2022 | Coalition’s failure to tax gas windfall profits cost the nation billions
18 July 2022 | Treasurer Chalmers bemoans nation’s debt but must act now
11 July 2022 | Labor must reverse Morrison's submarine bungle to protect nation
4 July 2022 | U.S. court decision will ensure gun deaths soar
27 June 2022 | The world is now a much better place, not just Australia
20 June 2022 | IAREM 2022: Switzerland tops economic rankings, Australia out of top 20
13 June 2022 | Hope for mabu liyan, a healthy national spirit, at last
6 June 2022 | National accounts mark Coalition 'F' for Fail on the economy
30 May 2022 | Hopes rise worldwide as Australians reject a regime of ‘notorious incompetence’
23 May 2022 | Well done, Australia — now let’s fix the joint up properly
16 May 2022 | Scott Morrison has ten key election messages — nine are not true
10 May 2022 | FLASHBACK 2019: How many seats will the Coalition win when the truth is actually told?
9 May 2022 | Big picture reforms, including slashing MP perks, now in sight
2 May 2022 | The royal commission that could recoup billions of rorted Aussie dollars
26 April 2022 | Department heads give worst ever economic report after eight Coalition years
19 April 2022 | Anne Ruston tries to outdo Morrison and Frydenberg on greatest deceptions
11 April 2022 | Slashing development aid harms our security and the destitute abroad
4 April 2022 | Morrison and Frydenberg's only economic success isn't even true
29 March 2022 | FLASHBACK 2019: Top ten Budget deceptions, brought to you by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg
28 March 2022 | Michael Savage's PM greatness echoed in Anthony Albanese
21 March 2022 | All-time worst economic outcomes under Morrison and Frydenberg hit 60
14 March 2022 | Insiders leads Coalition’s election campaign on economic supremacy
7 March 2022 | Twelve more things revealing Australia’s poor economic management
28 February 2022 | The perils of politicians praying in public
21 February 2022 | Morrison humiliates Australia further with lowest economic freedom ever
14 February 2022 | Frydenberg's gross incompetence finally hits mainstream media
7 February 2022 | Instead of baring teeth, journos pampered Morrison during recent speech
31 January 2022 | News Corp's shoddy 'journalism' again dominates Press Council complaints
24 January 2022 | Frydenberg's record proves he would be worse PM than Morrison
17 January 2022 | Morrison Government records 50 worst economic outcomes
10 January 2022 | Debunking the myth that the Coalition are good economic managers
20 December 2021 | Latest Government report indicates record economic mismanagement
13 December 2021 | ABC’s Insiders doesn't serve its viewers or the nation
6 December 2021 | Fact checking Frydenberg's flood of furphies and fabrications
29 November 2021 | Morrison Government notches up 40 'worst on record' economic outcomes
22 November 2021 | Inflation worse under Coalition than Labor, contrary to Morrison's claims
15 November 2021 | Living standards tumbling in Australia despite booming national wealth
8 November 2021 | House prices skyrocket and social housing collapses under the Coalition
1 November 2021 | Morrison Government humiliates Australia at G20
25 October 2021 | Australian economy languishes while Ireland, Singapore, NZ soar
18 October 2021 | Australia needs an ICAC, but also mandatory gaol sentences
11 October 2021 | Mainstream media ignore mental health data to denigrate Dan Andrews
4 October 2021 | Frydenberg’s mental health accusations against Andrews exposed as baseless
27 September 2021 | Morrison and Frydenberg set multiple 'all-time worst' records on jobs
20 September 2021 | Submarine fiasco the latest in a long list of Coalition military failures
13 September 2021 | Morrison Government sets more 'worst ever' economic records
6 September 2021 | Frydenberg dubiously claims Australia’s lagging economy ‘leads the pack’
30 August 2021 | Morrison Government sets records in economic mismanagement
23 August 2021 | Morrison delivers for foreign corporations: Lowest wage rise on record
18 August 2021 | Peta Credlin's political opinions are worthless
9 August 2021 | Murdoch press' lies and deceptions conflict with true Christian values
2 August 2021 | Rising living costs plunge Australia's economic ranking
26 July 2021 | Morrison’s recession: Australia’s worst since records have been kept
19 July 2021 | A new Employment Minister, but the deceptions continue
12 July 2021 | Australia's disastrous trade decisions may take decades to repair
5 July 2021 | Reserve Bank of Australia spruiks the Coalition with false information
28 June 2021 | How to build a strong Australian economy — swap Scott for Jacinda
21 June 2021 | Calls for Albanese to stand aside are unhelpful and futile
14 June 2021 | The Bureau of Statistics misleads Australians on the economy
8 June 2021 | ABC News economics department shows incompetence with false information
7 June 2021 | Incorrect ‘facts’ now emanate from Scott Morrison’s federal departments
31 May 2021 | Australia's post-COVID economic recovery lags behind comparable nations
24 May 2021 | Albanese much more than what the media portrays
17 May 2021 | The Coalition's debt far outstrips Labor's
10 May 2021 | ALAN AUSTIN: Job participation rate highlights burden on seniors and students
3 May 2021 | ALAN AUSTIN: Morrison Government may not be aligned with tenets of Christianity
26 April 2021 | ALAN AUSTIN: Treasurer Frydenberg's spurious pre-election claims
19 April 2021 | ALAN AUSTIN: Australia's low infrastructure spend, despite record debt
12 April 2021 | ALAN AUSTIN: Another year of disastrous construction worker deaths recorded
6 April 2021 | Beware the Coalition's 'boom' in pre-election deceptions
29 March 2021 | Morrison Government piling Australia in debt
22 March 2021 | Distrust in Government and Coalition harms Porter's claims of innocence
15 March 2021 | Australia going backwards on combatting corruption
8 March 2021 | Australia’s economy: From the pinnacle to the poorhouse in seven years
7 March 2021 | Australia still among lowest in COVID-19 deaths as global trend improves
1 March 2021 | Government submarine contract sunk and unlikely to resurface
22 February 2021 | Australia slides from world’s greatest country to pariah – in just ten years
15 February 2021 | Public servants confirm mismanagement by Morrison ministers
8 February 2021 | Mainstream media roll out pro-Coalition narrative for the election year
1 February 2021 | Despite ‘irresponsible journalism of the worst kind’, Murdoch gets a gong
25 January 2021 | Religious communities failed the USA and are also failing Australia
18 January 2021 | Wage rises in Australia hit rock bottom as employers profit from the pandemic
12 January 2021 | America's global authority disgrace as leaders condemn Trump
2 January 2021 | #4 TOP IA STORY OF 2020: What's happening with ABC 'Insiders'?
28 December 2020 | #9 TOP STORY OF 2020: World’s largest economy in free fall
27 December 2020 | #10 TOP IA STORY OF 2020: The new coronavirus threat to the world is the USA
21 December 2020 | No, Australia’s economy is not rebounding strongly. Who told you that?
15 December 2020 | ‘Insiders’ ends year in harness with News Corp – spruiking the failing Coalition
7 December 2020 | Company profits soar and wages fall while the media continues to mislead
30 November 2020 | Australia’s economy collapses further as tax evasion whacks revenue
23 November 2020 | Manipulated collective memory makes most Australians much poorer
16 November 2020 | Trump’s Republican death cult soon to lose office
13 November 2020 | World’s best economy in an age of COVID-19 — Taiwan tops the table
2 November 2020 | Incompetence, not the pandemic, has wrecked the economy
26 October 2020 | Pope Francis supports same-sex unions, cardinals ask ‘Is the Pope a Catholic?’
19 October 2020 | Mathias may want Paris, but Paris may not want Mathias
12 October 2020 | Another week of Federal Budget deceptions and hypocrisies
5 October 2020 | Right-wing politics costs lives, data shows
28 September 2020 | Murdoch cops multiple maulings by media monitor
21 September 2020 | U.S. military leaders line up to condemn Commander-in-Chief Trump
14 September 2020 | Why Australia’s stimulus is not working and won’t
7 September 2020 | Coalition plans on track — corporate slice of the nation’s pie hits all-time high
31 August 2020 | Coalition adds more debt in nine months than Labor did in under six years
24 August 2020 | The economy is still booming for the rich despite the pandemic
17 August 2020 | You want a strong economy? Start by raising corporate taxes
10 August 2020 | Poor decisions are wrecking Australia’s economy, not the virus
3 August 2020 | July numbers prove pandemic progress
27 July 2020 | Australia the big winner from Trump’s disastrous trade wars
20 July 2020 | Coalition trebles Labor’s debt – in triple-quick time
14 July 2020 | Trump, the pandemic and the News Corp misinformation machine
29 June 2020 | Rainbow of change for LGBT+ rights
22 June 2020 | World’s largest economy in free fall
15 June 2020 | The Coalition’s debt blow-out just hit $400 billion, but don’t tell anyone
8 June 2020 | This is not a recession Australia had to have
1 June 2020 | Building the national heritage: Difference between Labor and the Coalition
26 May 2020 | Australia loses thousands of jobs needlessly
18 May 2020 | COVID-19 lessons learned through needless deaths
11 May 2020 | Press freedom in Australia weak and getting weaker
4 May 2020 | Australia and NZ plan to open economies as USA courts disaster
27 April 2020 | What's happening with 'Insiders'?
20 April 2020 | Global agencies mark Morrison Government FAIL on economy
13 April 2020 | The new coronavirus threat to the world is the USA
6 April 2020 | COVID-19 is war and some countries are starting to win
30 March 2020 | Most coronavirus statistics are depressing – but not all
23 March 2020 | Pandemic hospital beds: Who is prepared?
17 March 2020 | The Morrison Government's stimulus may be too little too late
9 March 2020 | Australia under the Coalition: Economic management at an all-time low
2 March 2020 | UK beats U.S. economy, but it's nothing to skite about
24 February 2020 | Tax cuts, and other zombie notions practised by the Coalition
17 February 2020 | Coalition ministerial resignations bust 40, setting new record
10 February 2020 | Worst three years in retail ever: Thank you, Coalition Government
3 February 2020 | Morrison Government breaks debt records in December — along with promises
27 January 2020 | Global recovery skips Australia as economy suffers Coalition's incompetence
20 January 2020 | The global lurch to the Right
13 January 2020 | The decade of News Corp’s demise
6 January 2020 | The world in 2020: Some countries greater than others
31 December 2019 | #4 TOP STORY OF 2019: Australia's very weak economy makes global headlines
17 December 2019 | The corporations making big money, paying no tax and laughing at us
9 December 2019 | Coalition tax cuts a complete failure, latest data shows
2 December 2019 | The Coalition's 'global headwinds' excuse as wage growth hits 22-year low
26 November 2019 | Kelly-Frydenberg love-in dupes viewers
22 November 2019 | Australia’s unemployment ranking statistics now worst ever
11 November 2019 | Labor election review: Facts, fallacies and the mainstream media
4 November 2019 | World’s best economy 2019: No, not the Coalition's Australia
27 October 2019 | Australia's alarmingly weak economy makes global headlines
21 October 2019 | Liberals outdo themselves with untruths, hubris and hypocrisy
14 October 2019 | Coalition hypocrisy on infrastructure surges as actual spending stalls
9 October 2019 | Canberra economists expose the Coalition’s economic failures
30 September 2019 | Morrison's Coalition shunts Australia's wealth offshore
23 September 2019 | Morrison flukes greatest export boom in history, but still can’t increase pensions
16 September 2019 | Mathias Cormann, Minister for Financial Fudges
9 September 2019 | Australia’s financial report card: Worst performance in the developed world
2 September 2019 | The Coalition denies its dismal failure on jobs
26 August 2019 | The ‘joke’ and ‘utter lightweight’ is not Jacinda Ardern
19 August 2019 | Workers’ wage rises lowest on record
12 August 2019 | Coalition economic management a huge fail
5 August 2019 | Retailers also thrown on the Coalition’s scrapheap
29 July 2019 | Andrew Bolt continues on about Adam Goodes
22 July 2019 | Combatting fake news
15 July 2019 | Americans (and others) duped by fake news and tweets
8 July 2019 | The Coalition now serves foreign corporations first and foremost
1 July 2019 | House prices and household income plummet under the Coalition
24 June 2019 | Israel Folau and the anti-gay lobby kicking against the breeze
17 June 2019 | Newsrooms tell the truth about the economy — after the election
10 June 2019 | Why Scott Morrison is paid three times what he’s worth
3 June 2019 | How many seats will the Coalition win when the truth is actually told?
27 May 2019 | Why Australia will never have a Jacinda Ardern
17 May 2019 | Construction fatalities in Australia: The Coalition’s deadly legacy
13 May 2019 | Scott Morrison’s top ten election campaign deceptions
6 May 2019 | Australia’s economy has deteriorated under the Coalition
29 April 2019 | Experts agree: Labor best economic managers
22 April 2019 | Ministerial resignations in Australia: The Coalition sets a new record
15 April 2019 | Remember when Australia had the world's best economy?
8 April 2019 | Top ten Budget deceptions, brought to you by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg
1 April 2019 | Modern monetary theory and the real game
25 March 2019 | Australia’s racist image and the communities of faith
15 March 2019 | Coalition doubles all debt since the 1850s and the craven media says nothing
9 March 2019 | Australia's economy hits an all-time low
18 February 2019 | Economy, corruption and democracy, Coalition style
29 January 2019 | Americans poorer as the Great Deal Maker’s deals fall through
24 December 2018 | #10 TOP IA STORY OF 2018: Why the faltering U.S. economy matters to Australia
8 December 2018 | First they damage the economy, then they fudge the figures
1 December 2018 | Iceland puts socialist policies to the test and wins
27 November 2018 | Mid-term neoliberal backlash for Macron in France
13 November 2018 | Turnbull's final fantasies: Why they matter
3 November 2018 | World’s best economy 2018: Iceland by an Arctic fox’s whisker
15 October 2018 | Coalition's 'very, very weird' policies: A disastrous drain on Australia's net worth
15 September 2018 | U.S. economy in steady decay: World's biggest tree rotting from the inside
7 September 2018 | Coalition corruption: Turnbull’s tawdry tenure terminates
23 August 2018 | A new direction: The truth about the economy they don’t want you to know
21 July 2018 | Why the faltering U.S. economy matters to Australia — and Malcolm's mates
19 June 2018 | Press Council refuses to investigate The Australian over multiple falsehoods
8 June 2018 | 'The Australian’ continues its malicious attacks on Julia Gillard
25 May 2018 | It's okay to be gay — Pope Francis says so
21 May 2018 | Australia slides further down the global rankings on jobs and growth
14 May 2018 | Counting the cost of the Coalition (Part 2): Where has Australia’s wealth gone?
13 May 2018 | Counting the cost of the Coalition (Part 1): A nation's loss
8 May 2018 | Budget 2018: What you won’t find in Morrison’s third budget
5 May 2018 | What happens when company tax is slashed? Exhibit A: Australia
25 April 2018 | Construction and national net worth continue to decline under Turnbull
13 April 2018 | Turnbull Government at sea over live sheep exports
11 April 2018 | Ignore the polls — Turnbull should resign over his economic incompetence
24 March 2018 | Australia's unemployment: It's worse than you're being told
15 February 2018 | Turnbull’s tawdry corruption tally tops the ton — that didn’t take long!
7 February 2018 | News Corp expands its pro-Trump #fakenews despite failing U.S. economy
29 January 2018 | Turnbull’s Australia: Tanking while world trade is booming
24 January 2018 | Lies, damned lies and Turnbull's jobs growth statistics
19 January 2018 | Donald Trump: Putting the con back into economic recovery
20 December 2017 | Austerity, deficits and the tax the Coalition won't collect
6 December 2017 | The rich keep getting richer — if we keep voting for them
2 December 2017 | November data confirms Australians will be poorer for years to come
28 November 2017 | World's best economies: Congratulations Singapore! Commiserations Australia
19 November 2017 | Modern ministerial sackings (Part 3): Purges over performance and positions
18 November 2017 | Modern ministerial sackings (Part 2): Scams, sex, shares and citizenship
17 November 2017 | Modern ministerial sackings (Part 1): Turnbull smashes Howard’s record
26 October 2017 | 20 reasons why the Turnbull Government is gutting the ABS
11 October 2017 | The Western Front: In search of Alexander Benson 2372
27 September 2017 | Jobs and growth? Both collapsing under Turnbull, Morrison and Cash
18 September 2017 | Corruption under Malcolm Turnbull: Going for the all-time world record
6 September 2017 | How the Turnbull Government, big business and the ABC fool the gullible
3 September 2017 | August economic news: Marvellous for the moguls, miserable for the majority
30 August 2017 | 'The Australian' cons the capable as well as the cranks on Section 18C
23 August 2017 | Why the churches will not influence the same-sex marriage vote
18 August 2017 | Turnbull Government lies and misleads on ABS job figures
12 August 2017 | Boycotting the ballot benefits the bigots but ‘Yes’ will win anyway
27 July 2017 | Corruption rife in Turnbull’s Australia — aided by corrupt mass media
8 July 2017 | What Australia – and the world – might learn from France’s new president
5 July 2017 | The Coalition's Australia: Households lose, big business wins and debt soars
29 June 2017 | News Corp boosts return of Tony Abbott
9 June 2017 | Turnbull and Morrison shift Australia’s wealth straight offshore
5 June 2017 | Coalition corruption thrives under Turnbull: No shame whatsoever
29 May 2017 | Trump’s evenhanded European tour: Equally offensive to all
9 May 2017 | Macron's victory in France: A crushing defeat for the Left, Right or both?
29 April 2017 | Morrison’s debt hypocrisy deepens as ominous milestones loom
19 April 2017 | France’s new president: From the far left, centre, right or far right?
8 April 2017 | Scott Morrison tries to deceive the bankers, the voters and himself
20 March 2017 | How the latest job figures expose the Turnbull Government's lies
5 March 2017 | The Australian finally defeated over Section 18C?
26 February 2017 | Coalition swiftly doubles Labor’s debt — with no excuse
22 February 2017 | Julian Assange among those relieved at Ecuador’s election outcome
18 February 2017 | The Church of England in Britain moves closer to same sex marriage
21 January 2017 | Battlelines are now drawn in the war against transparency and truth
30 December 2016 | IA #2 top story of 2016: The ABC plunges to a new low
29 December 2016 | IA #3 top story of 2016: The truth about jobs in Australia — that you won't read in the newspapers
23 December 2016 | Turnbull's dismal economic year closes in near despair
10 December 2016 | Murdoch conceals Coalition's disastrous economic woes with #fakenews
29 November 2016 | IAREM 2016: Switzerland and Singapore sail ahead leaving Australia adrift
18 November 2016 | Paid work in Australia: First they reduce it, then they lie about it
10 November 2016 | Labor's GFC legacy: The verdict of history (Part 3 and conclusion)
8 November 2016 | One possible positive from the presidential campaign
7 November 2016 | Labor’s GFC legacy (Part 2): What was really achieved
4 November 2016 | Labor's GFC legacy: Misrepresented by falsehoods fast and furious (Part 1)
28 October 2016 | Turnbull’s damaging divisions demand drastic deeds
18 October 2016 | Australia’s debt mismanagement under Turnbull: It’s worse than you think
13 October 2016 | Australia’s Coalition — worst economic managers in the Western world
21 July 2016 | Bastille Day terror: France forced to face its brutal recent history
13 July 2016 | Turnbull’s divided Coalition hanging by a thread
4 July 2016 | Is a Labor Government looking likely?
2 July 2016 | IA’s election QUIZ #10: Winners and losers in Australian politics
1 July 2016 | Election QUIZ #9: How well do you know the Labor Opposition?
26 June 2016 | Election QUIZ #8: How well do you know the Federal Coalition?
25 June 2016 | Facing an uncertain future after Brexit, Brits stay calm
23 June 2016 | Election QUIZ #7: How well do you know Australia’s hidden economic history?
23 June 2016 | Answers: Quiz #10, 2 July 2016
23 June 2016 | ANSWERS to election QUIZ #9: How well do you know the Labor Opposition?
18 June 2016 | Answers to QUIZ #8: How well do you know the Federal Coalition?
18 June 2016 | IA's Election QUIZ #6: How well do you know Australia’s place in the world?
15 June 2016 | Answers to Quiz 7: How well do you know Australia’s hidden economic history?
11 June 2016 | IA’s election QUIZ #5: How well do you know Australia’s women in public life?
10 June 2016 | Answers: Quiz # 6, 18 June, 2016
8 June 2016 | IA's election quiz: How well do you know Australia’s prime ministers? (No 4)
4 June 2016 | IA's election QUIZ: How well do you know Australia’s treasurers? (No 3)
3 June 2016 | Dismal economic news through May
2 June 2016 | Answers: Quiz No 5, 11 June 2016
1 June 2016 | IA's election QUIZ: How well do you know Australia’s quirky political system? (No 2)
1 June 2016 | Answers: Quiz No 4: 8 June 2016
28 May 2016 | IA's election QUIZ: How well do you know Australia’s colourful political history? (No 1)
26 May 2016 | Answers: Quiz No 3, 4 June 2016
25 May 2016 | Answers: Quiz No 2, 1 June 2016
21 May 2016 | Jobs in Australia: From bad to disastrous with no relief in sight
14 May 2016 | Coalition corruption: They are not even embarrassed about it
7 May 2016 | Answers: Quiz No 1, 28 May 2016
4 May 2016 | Budget papers show steep decline of Australian economy under Coalition
25 April 2016 | Turnbull's Coalition: The most destructively divided government in Australian history?
28 March 2016 | Curbing corruption in Australia? Turnbull is not even trying
18 March 2016 | Scott Morrison worse treasurer than Joe Hockey? Say it isn't so!
10 March 2016 | Tony, Peta and Niki — and the silence of the press gallery
22 February 2016 | The truth about jobs in Australia — that you won't read in the newspapers
15 February 2016 | Corruption on Turnbull’s watch widens and deepens
8 February 2016 | Murdoch spreads the IPA’s porkies about ‘the Andrew Bolt law’
3 February 2016 | Political party donations — what we know and what we should know
1 February 2016 | Corruption under Turnbull: An international embarrassment
25 January 2016 | Does Scott Morrison really have a clue?
18 January 2016 | The ABC plunges to a new low
9 January 2016 | Australia’s media in 2015: a year of distortions, disservice and disgrace
31 December 2015 | Corruption and incompetence escalate on Turnbull’s watch
20 December 2015 | World’s best economy: Another wipeout for Australia
14 December 2015 | French flirt with far right before sanity prevails
12 December 2015 | Abbott gets it wrong again. And again.
6 December 2015 | Scott Morrison spins – while growth dawdles and debt breaks $400b barrier
28 November 2015 | Corruption and incompetence flourish under Turnbull Government
21 November 2015 | France’s declaration of war unlikely to succeed — for the president or for peace
30 October 2015 | That(cher) speech: Surely Abbott's last hoorah?
22 October 2015 | Hapless Hockey's hopeless legacy
20 October 2015 | Canadians hammer Harper’s hard right and hand power to reformist Trudeau
18 October 2015 | Canada votes: Time for the last remaining right wing nutter to go?
30 September 2015 | Abbott is gone but the lies carry on
17 September 2015 | The Australian rewrites the history of the Abbott years
15 September 2015 | Abbott deceives the nation right to the end: 65 porkie pies in two years
27 August 2015 | Dyson Heydon: Why will it take until Friday?
8 August 2015 | Right-wing media falsehoods at heart of racial hatred
12 July 2015 | Australian economy tanking at the halfway mark
27 June 2015 | The Killing Season exposes Australia’s malicious media
20 June 2015 | Australia ‘morally bereft’ — the view worldwide
14 June 2015 | What are Abbott and Hockey really trying to achieve? How the media deceive voters
11 June 2015 | What are Abbott and Hockey really trying to achieve? Part 2: Sneaky shifts in wealth and income
7 June 2015 | What are Abbott and Hockey really trying to achieve? 20 tries for 20 failures
31 May 2015 | Professions end guilty silence on Abbott Government failures
24 May 2015 | Tony Abbott’s harmful hypocrisy condemned worldwide
18 May 2015 | Budget backflips bring broken promises tally to 85
9 May 2015 | The hypocrisy of Abbott and Hockey at the halfway mark
22 April 2015 | World’s best economy: Australia loses top IAREM ranking under Coalition
4 April 2015 | Abbott’s senior public servants expose his incompetence and lies
14 March 2015 | Abbott trashes Australia’s reputation abroad — again
17 February 2015 | Abbott and Hockey's budget megafail II: The revenue writedown debacle
16 February 2015 | Waste of space: Joe Hockey’s budget megafail all Abbott’s fault
8 February 2015 | About Tony Abbott: We hate to say 'we told you so', but...
2 February 2015 | Abbott’s problems are all Rudd’s and Gillard’s fault
28 January 2015 | Knightmare on L-NP street: Abbott Government brawls now number 50
25 October 2014 | Liberal Party corruption stench grows
21 October 2014 | Abbott takes Australia to last place on global climate change leadership
15 October 2014 | Nobel Prize for economics challenges Hockeynomics
11 October 2014 | That's not a debt disaster — THIS is a debt disaster: Joe and Tony’s big con
3 October 2014 | Tony Abbott’s foreign affairs disasters pass 40
27 September 2014 | Abbott and Hockey’s debt and deficit disaster
12 September 2014 | Julia creams critics – and crashes more careers
6 September 2014 | Australia after one year of Abbott: How did it come to this?
2 September 2014 | Hanger's HIP royal commission: Pink batts payback
31 August 2014 | HIP Royal Commission submission (7): How the LNP/MSM lied about pink batts
30 August 2014 | HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 6): What inefficiency and waste?
29 August 2014 | HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 5): Dramatic drop in deaths
28 August 2014 | HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 4): Howard's dangerous non-regulation
27 August 2014 | HIP Royal Commission submission (Part 3): Hundreds of lives saved
3 August 2014 | Abbott’s broken promises reach 50 as the ABC joins the party
27 July 2014 | The Murdochian candidate
25 July 2014 | Australia's online news: What's worth watching and reading
18 July 2014 | Out of his depth Abbott sinks Australia further into the merde
13 July 2014 | Why alternative media are conquering the world
9 July 2014 | Tony Abbott continues to trash Australia’s reputation abroad
3 July 2014 | Abbott's aimless austerity threatens Australia's prosperity
28 June 2014 | Tony Abbott may have doomed Peter Greste to years in an Egyptian prison
22 June 2014 | Academics and The Australian go up in smoke
18 June 2014 | An Abbott abroad III: What the watching world wrote
14 June 2014 | An Abbott Abroad II: Tony no-friends wants to be like Mike
7 June 2014 | Abbott embarrasses Australia abroad — again
1 June 2014 | 10 reasons why the Liberals' end is nigh
24 May 2014 | PM Abbott’s top 40 broken promises and blatant hypocrisies — so far
19 May 2014 | Submission to Pink Batts Royal Commission (Part Two): The critical need for speed
15 May 2014 | Pink Batts Royal Commission media fail on Garrett's impressive testimony
12 May 2014 | Submission to Pink Batts Royal Commission (Part One): Extraordinary success in averting recession
10 May 2014 | Abbott, Hockey and Cormann threaten permanent damage
1 May 2014 | Tony Abbott’s 'Definitely Not a New Tax But Anyway It's Temporary' Levy
26 April 2014 | Is Australia run by compulsive liars? Part three: Will Bill lie like Tony to be PM?
19 April 2014 | Is Australia run by compulsive liars? Part two: Abbott's astonishing 30 lies
12 April 2014 | Is Australia run by compulsive liars?
5 April 2014 | Budget bothers: Joe Hockey is no Paul Keating
29 March 2014 | Abbott and Hockey selling-off the silver: IAREM says Australians will suffer
23 March 2014 | The world’s best economy (Part Two): Winners and losers through the GFC
19 March 2014 | But Andrew Bolt IS a racist: In black and white
15 March 2014 | Australia tops the IAREM: World’s best economy
5 March 2014 | Rupert’s reporting instructions on Abbott's disastrous first six months
1 March 2014 | ABC provides taxpayer funded platform for Murdoch manipulators to mislead
22 February 2014 | Churches combine to condemn Abbott’s evils
15 February 2014 | Liberal lies and military manipulations
8 February 2014 | Abbott’s new world record: 25 broken promises in 150 days
1 February 2014 | Catholics condemn callous Abbott regime
29 January 2014 | Murdoch minions boost Abbott delusion
25 January 2014 | Abbott’s Davos disaster
18 January 2014 | The inadvertent Abbott Government’s Indonesian crisis
11 January 2014 | Eleven questions Abbott will never answer — because they’ll never be asked
3 January 2014 | Murdoch and Abbott combine to silence the ABC
31 December 2013 | Abbott's amazing Alpine adventures
21 December 2013 | Abbott’s bitterest foes — his Coalition colleagues
17 December 2013 | Abbott’s foreign policy disasters: 20 in 100 days
7 December 2013 | Abbott and Murdoch: All out damage control
26 November 2013 | Indonesia crisis entirely of Tony Abbott’s making
16 November 2013 | Abbott Government's broken promises: so many, so soon
15 November 2013 | What has Kevin Rudd ever done for us?!
29 October 2013 | Murdoch and Fairfax use Labor to destroy Labor
27 September 2013 | Downer by name, disaster by nature
19 September 2013 | Press Council finds Fairfax fabricated AWU Gillard stories
5 September 2013 | We really must talk about Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey
3 September 2013 | We really must talk about the Howard and Costello economic disaster
28 August 2013 | We really must talk about Murdoch’s tame economists
21 August 2013 | We really must talk about what actually did save Australia
15 August 2013 | We really must talk about this debt nonsense
13 August 2013 | We really must talk about the pink batts
9 August 2013 | We really must talk about all these lies
27 July 2013 | Tony Abbott's latest 15 lies
13 June 2013 | Fifteen fabulous success stories Australians must never be told
5 June 2013 | ABC's 'Furdoch' News blows case for public funding
23 May 2013 | Sloppy Joe Hockey's 15 biggest Press Club furphies
19 May 2013 | Tony Abbott’s 12 biggest budget reply porkie pies
10 May 2013 | How will Tony cope in gaol?
30 April 2013 | Debt and deficit Downunder — don’t be so damned depressed!
26 March 2013 | Libs move to axe Abbott after poll shock
16 March 2013 | News Limited’s hysterical campaign confirms need for media regulation
4 March 2013 | Joe has no idea
20 February 2013 | Fairfax's anti-Government bias is as clear as (David) Day
7 February 2013 | The Australian media and week one of the "campaign"
2 February 2013 | The Australian's media campaign against anti-discrimination
26 November 2012 | The Canberra volcano: "Questions the PM must answer"
19 November 2012 | IPA falsifiers fear fact checking fad
9 November 2012 | Europe reacts to Obama's re-election
30 October 2012 | The uncharitable IPA
10 October 2012 | Alan Jones and 2GB — lessons not learnt
26 September 2012 | More distortions by the IPA and News over internet privacy laws
13 September 2012 | The truth about homosexual health
4 September 2012 | Truth versus lies — the new political divide?
31 August 2012 | The world moves forward to support marriage equality
16 August 2012 | Refugees and the Houston Report
26 July 2012 | Ministerial responsibility in Australia: Accuracy please
21 June 2012 | Marriage in the Judeo-Christian scripture — those kinky Hebrews
22 May 2012 | Wind shift in church gay union match
9 September 2011 | Murdoch media in Australia: malign but excisable

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