ScoMo plays Djoko but Dutton buys tanks
“Nine years long” reads a handmade sign in a sealed window of the Park Hotel, Swanston Street, Carlton, a grim, grey, makeshift, Melbourne gaol for […]
Politics
Djokovic versus the Australian Commonwealth
January 10, 2022 will be remembered as one of the odder days in the annals of sport. For one, it had little to do with […]
2022 has well and truly begun
2022 has now begun and here we are with the LNP in government for the past 8 years, and a worldwide pandemic with Covid-19, which […]
The real cost of AUKUS
We will never know the full extent of what our government has signed up to with their AUKUS deal but it is increasingly looking like […]
The Mauling of Novak Djokovic
Rarely can the treatment of a grand sporting figure by officialdom have caused such consternation. Novak Djokovic, the tennis World Number One, has always had […]
Teachers are not babysitters
As the beginning of the new school year approaches, politicians, doctors and journalists are racing to tell us all that school must go back on […]
Now let’s get this straight: We don’t have the best…
Election Diary. 2022. No2. Saturday, January 8 2022. “Now let’s get this straight: We don’t have the best…” 1 Who is paying for our Covid programme? […]
Australia did well when we followed the health advice, and then the politicians took over
Just over three weeks ago, on December 14, NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, held a press conference to confirm that the next day pretty much […]
While university jobs disappeared, Jobkeeper provided a windfall to wealthy private schools
Jobkeeper has proved to be a gravy train for wealthy private schools serving the most advantaged families in Victoria. New financial statements posted on the […]
Ode to a Rodent
John Howard – how this clusterfuck started God save the queen And bless all her palaces Johnny was stuck in a time-warped paralysis Back to […]
The baggage the LNP have dragged from one year to the next has gotten heavier and heavier
Election Diary. 2022. No1. 5 January 2022. “The baggage the LNP have dragged from one year to the next has gotten heavier and heavier.” I […]
How to solve the RAT supply dilemma
Putting aside the wishes of Chemist Warehouse, and Scott Morrison’s trademark retreat from leadership, there is a very obvious and easy way to solve the […]
Know your Premier
As NSW records over 22,000 new cases of COVID and the number in hospital races towards a thousand, it’s worth getting to know the man […]
Number 1 for 2021: The Morrison government is a sewer
The countdown is over! Number 1 goes to Dr Jennifer Wilson for this article from February 2021 on what would be one of the biggest […]
Number 2 for 2021: The Day John Lennon Was Shot I Had A Cold Sore So It Was A Bad Day For Both Of Us!
We continue the countdown to our Top 5 most viewed articles in 2021. Number 2 goes to Rossleigh for this article from January 2021. It’s […]