The US Imperium Garrisons Australia
On December 6, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosted Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Deputy Prime Minister and […]
Politics
A Dying Breed: Young Voters and the LNP
The Liberal-National COALition has had, to put it lightly, a bad time in recent electoral contests. From the utter wipeout in Western Australia to the […]
Please don’t ask the LNP about their future until they come out of denialism first
“Had I been asked about these matters at the time, I would have responded truthfully about the arrangements I had put in place. “I have […]
Get out of the gutter
By 2353NM You may not have heard of Mike Rinder. A Scientologist for most of his life, at the age of 52 he walked out, […]
Floods of Challenges: The Victorian Election Saga of Australia’s Transition from Neoliberalism and Guided Democracy
By Denis Bright Victorians rejected the instability of minority government in favour of a third term for Labor’s Premier Daniel Andrews. He joins the ranks […]
Julian Assange and Albanese’s Intervention
The unflinching US effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act of 1917, […]
The Right is toxic: what next for conservatives?
The international right is cynical and dangerous. It is crucial we look beyond the surface rhetoric to understand what it represents because Australia is not […]
To be truthful, “sorry” is a word so hard to say
When you think there isn’t much to write about in politics, the system spews out an avalanche of year-ending scandals, policy decisions, election results and […]
Was Amtrak Joe derailed?
Prior to becoming President, Joe Biden was a US Senator for around 36 years. He is known as Amtrak Joe as he routinely took the […]
Democracy Tested
The only defence that we, the people, have against an arrogant leader who is thumbing his nose at our democratic arrangements is by shining a […]
Promises, Promises, Promises
What’s a promise or, more specifically, an election promise? Is it a guilt-edged set-in concrete commitment made during an election campaign? What if the circumstances […]
Coming to Terms with Floods of Challenges
By Denis Bright Finton Magee’s Street Art on the railway underpass at Merivale Street, South Brisbane is a tribute to Brisbane’s survival after the January […]
Victorian Election: Liberals under siege from extremist religious groups
The Victorian election is a mess. This is the product of the destruction of our conservative forces by international right wing radicalism; for people in […]
A view of Trump from Down Under
The news that former President Trump would be standing for the position again in 2024 has greeted the world with a mixture of dismay and […]
Greed is the problem, not workers
Of course, The Australian republished Andy Kessler’s ridiculous Wall Street Journal column, “The decline of work in a spoiled society.” Those News Corp bedfellows continue […]