Dear Scotty (an email from his God)
To: Scooter From: The Heavenly Father Cc: the Son, the Holy Ghost, the Eagle painting Hi Scoot, Apologies for the delay in responding to your […]
Politics
Let’s hear it for the ladies
Election diary No 11. Wednesday, 16 February 2022. The first thing to say about the National Press Clubs ladies’ speech day was that Albo turned […]
Compulsory Voting and its Antipodean ills
Time and time again, we are told that making people vote improves representation and representativeness. Herding them on pain of penalty will somehow keep politics […]
Political Donations and Brown Paper Bags – spot the difference!
Zali Steggall has been a target of the Liberal Party ever since she dared topple Tony Abbott, in the 2019 election, in the seat of […]
Awww did the mean people call Scotty names? Try being queer
Scott Morrison worships at a church that deems homosexuality as a “broken-ness”, something that can be fixed with conversion therapy. When the country overwhelmingly voted […]
Bringing the family to work
Like everyone else, politicians have private lives. Unlike everyone else, increasingly they have been sharing these with us during the course of their work. Brittany […]
It’s the Politics, Stupid: Morrison and The Abuse Apology
Journalist Karen Middleton, writing for The Saturday Paper, has penned a remarkable analysis around The Lodge Occupant’s apology to those who suffered abuse in parliament. […]
Morrison’s apology derails rape trial
Yet again many of us are asking ourselves, is Prime Minister Scott Morrison thoroughly ill-intentioned, or merely driven by blindly arrogant stupidity and incompetence? That […]
Is it possible to feel sympathy for Smirko? Yeah, nah!
Spud pulling the wings off butterflies – “I think I will, I think I won’t…”. You’ve got to feel for der Gruppenfritter. Well, no you […]
Let’s remember Morrison holidaying as the state burned
By Andrew Wicks Scott Morrison might well undermine it, but let’s remember the apocalyptic summer he left us to navigate and later lied about. Ahead […]
Look in your own bed, Dutton
It was August 2014 when then assistant defence minister, Stuart Robert, took a “private” trip to Beijing to oversee a mining deal involving a major […]
Why am I crying?
Even before Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame stood up to speak at the National Press Club today, I found myself shaking. Not in excitement at […]
At the Morrisons on Christmas morn’
By 2353NM On Christmas morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison had a traditional start to the day. His family gathered around the Christmas Tree to exchange […]
Great Barrier Reef Fantasies: The Morrison Government’s Electoral Ploy
There are some things that strain credulity. There are the dubious accounts of virgin births. There are the resolute flat earth theorists and denialists of […]
The government is falling apart… let’s hope the voters are paying attention
Election diary No 10. Wednesday, 9 February 2022. 1 In one of the most insincere acts of contrition ever in Australian politics, Barnaby Joyce apologises to […]