ErinRiley.com.au

Today, I cast a donkey vote for the first time in my life. This is not something I do lightly. I take voting and my duty as a citizen very seriously, even though, for the most part, I live in an area where my vote doesn’t matter much as it’s a fairly safe seat. For once, this was not the case. Unfortunately, I felt I genuinely couldn’t vote for any of the candidates. While some certainly had some positive attributes, my problem with them is this: I think the single biggest issue in Sydney is housing affordability. Not affordable housing. [...]

About eighteen months ago, fired up in a fury of righteous indignation about the way the Labor party snuck some pretty significant income redistribution- especially toward fairly wealthy retirees- into the Carbon Tax bill, I did what any occasionally-aspiring political pundit would do, and took to Twitter. I declared my allegiances fixed, then and there, and that, with the Labor party having shown it was more interested in redistribution than a sound carbon pricing scheme, I would do my democratic duty and join the Libs. The then-editor of The Drum saw my tweet, and asked me if I’d care to [...]