What a Bastard of a Year!
What a Bastard of a Year! Oh, I don’t know, perhaps I’m wrong on this, too but I see Albo as an Aussie version of […]
Politics
The mug punter
By 2353NM When we entered 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was ‘livin’ the dream’. He had narrowly won the 2019 election and after a few […]
Christmas bombshell cements Australia’s pariah status
THE federal government is putting $50m on the table to speed up gas exploration and development in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo sub-basin 600km south of […]
Fact, Fiction, Faith – and the Future
Growing up in the UK, in a Christian household (my mother’s father had been a Minister in the Church of Christ and my father’s family […]
My view of the year that was: A year of scandal and corruption
Continued from My view of the year that was (part 2) The latter half of 2020 saw Australia as one of the leading countries in the […]
The dangerous toll of entrenched belief
By Ad astra The world is redolent with danger. Even small children know the dangers in their playground: he knows he can fall from the […]
2020 and the anus horribilis
Old fried dough stick (老油条 Lao Youtiao) is an amusingly accurate sobriquet that China state TV aimed at he who the French might label with […]
Patting yourself on the back for what? It’s pitiful.
“Well done,” tweeted the NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, to the Prime Minister There were many responses, but federal MP Zali Steggall’s was to the […]
The cost of ideology
By 2353NM Given recent events in Australia, you could say the price of political ideology is $1.2 billion, as that is the settlement the Coalition […]
My view of the year that was (part 2)
Continued from My view of the year that was (part 1) Come April/May of 2020 the coronavirus had taken control of our economy and our […]
What is the purpose of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament?
Many of the policies presented by the ALP at the 2019 election were based on a genuine attempt to achieve social justice. Their presentation failed […]
Imperfect Releases: Andrew Hastie, War Crimes Reports and Australia in Afghanistan
If one were to get into the head of Australian government MP Andrew Hastie, a security tangle of woe would no doubt await. Having been […]
The distortion of the Australian public sphere: Media ownership concentration in Australia
The following article, by Associate Professor Johan Lidberg, first appeared in Australian Quarterly (Jan-Mar 2019) and is reproduced here with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief […]
My view of the year that was (part 1)
I finished the year 2019 with a piece titled George Christensen and other secrets about the rather rotund figure of George. Well, not about his […]