A tawdry B Grade coup
Like many Australians in lock down I ‘m devouring movies and television programmes to pass the time. Recently I came across a b-grade film which […]
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Morrison – the buck stops with you!
Before commencing writing this post, I read another brief biography of Morrison’s career which was less directly critical than one I had read earlier and […]
Bye bye, Mathias. Is Spud next?
Senator Mathias Pubert Cormann has chucked his car keys into the trifle and announced his pending retirement from politics after 7 continuous years of rogering […]
An open letter to Scott Morrison, PM
Mr Morrison, Do you realise how much better off you are than the vast majority of Australians who are directly affected by your policy decisions? […]
Not your average Aussie
Today marks the tenth anniversary of Julia Gillard becoming Australia’s first female Prime Minister. As an ‘insider’ (she was my boss) I can attest that […]
The Morrison Government is bad, but is it that people don’t care anymore?
Prior to the last election I was of the view that the good folk of Australia had their cricket bats at the ready preparing to […]
PM Scotty Joins The Commentary Team!
I heard something interesting today. Scott Morrison was on 2GB telling voters: “Anthony Albanese has been totally burned by this scandal. We’re fighting for jobs, they’re […]
US Goes Full Fascist: Trump and The Floyd Protests
Disclaimer: As an historian, I do not throw around the word fascist lightly. It has a very precise meaning but is so often used to […]
Frydenberg: Best Economic Manager Ever Improves Budget By $60 Billion Overnight!
It’s been quite a week for the Coalition government what with China calling us a joke after cancelling some of our exports, Peter “He Who […]
Slippery Scotty and the Corona agenda
Scott Morrison is not my favourite person. I’m not alone: “Mathias (Cormann) regarded Scott (Morrison) as emotional, narcissistic and untrustworthy” – Malcolm Turnbull. “An absolute […]
Alan Jones: A rat from the feral right
People like Alan Jones, Ray Hadley and Andrew Bolt worked out long ago that there is money in hate-filled rants. They are the peddlers of […]
Aussie Politics in 2022
As one speculates on the deteriorating trajectory of the Australian economy under the stranglehold of COVID-19, it’s not hard to see the gradual demise of […]
Dial M for Monster
By Kathryn Murdoch cares nothing about Australia or Australians. It was Murdoch who tossed his Australian citizenship in the garbage all those years ago when […]
It’s more than just a virus: there are culture wounds and abscesses of leadership
So submersed have we become with all the consequences and complications of COVID-19 that it has preoccupied our minds as if nothing else exists. And […]
Resume democratic government, Morrison; recall parliament
The ritual killing of a water buffalo, by Ifugao villagers of northern Luzon, Philippines, the bloody, brutal slaughter of an innocent, sentient creature, a shocking […]