"The torpid languor of one hand washes the drowsy procrastination of the other. Are these phenomena indications of something chronic in the modern state of litigation? Or are they merely acute and atypical breakdowns in an otherwise functional system? Are they signs of a trend, or do they reveal only an anomaly?"

Crazy Murdoch: paving the path to demonise Councils... and eventually remove Councils from the face of the earth by a Liberal Government. When one reads the small print, one should be horrified:

from antony loewenstein ….

Sydney Airport has paid no tax in the 10 years since it was privatised by the government.

Tony Abbott has instructed the Liberal party to accept no further donations from tobacco companies on the grounds that Labor was using the issue as a “distraction” in the election campaign with its promise to ban all tobacco donations to political parties.

From Dana Milbank

Most in Britain seem unconcerned about the mass surveillance carried out by its intelligence agency GCHQ.

from politicoz …..

paying for parental leave …

Last week, the Washington Post published an internal audit finding the NSA had violated privacy rules thousands of times in recent years.