Desert Dreams

BobInnes

  • Kevin Rudd, ‘Fiscal’ Conservative?

      Just over a year since the Howard Government was thrown unceremoniously from power, with their leader, John Howard, losing his own seat (his party didn’t have the guts to dump him, but the voters did) it is an appropriate… Continue reading

  • The Ascent of Obama

    My Backwards Bush counter tells me that there are seventy-eight days, fourteen minutes, and twenty-five seconds to go, before Bush the Lessor stumbles away to his inglorious obscurity – while paradoxically, and indelibly, entering history as the worst president ever.… Continue reading

  • Ode to John Howard

    Nothing, apart from the Howard Government winning this years election, (which is not going to happen), would disappoint me more than if John Howard had chosen not to contest it as his party’s leader. For a while it seemed, he… Continue reading

  • The Rat to go Down with his Ship

    Nothing, apart from the Howard Government winning this years election, (which is not going to happen), would disappoint me more than if John Howard had chosen not to contest it as his party’s leader. For a while it seemed, he… Continue reading

  • Election Looms – Howard’s Doom?

      After what seems to have been a year of a phony election campaign, the incumbent John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister, will soon have to call an election. He is in no hurry to do so, as his so-called ‘Liberal’… Continue reading

  • Mohamed Haneef; The Politics Of Hate

    Of one thing we can be sure. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, and Prime Minister John Howard will pursue Mohamed Haneef with every ounce of their being. Far more important for them now, is not… Continue reading