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Articles by Rossleigh

About Rossleigh
Rossleigh is a writer, director and teacher. As a writer, his plays include “The Charles Manson Variety Hour”, “Pastiche”, “Snap!”, “That’s Me In The Distance”, “48 Hours (without Eddie Murphy)”, and “A King of Infinite Space”. His acting credits include “Pinor Noir Noir” for “Short and Sweet” and carrying the coffin in “The Slap”. His ten minutes play, “Y” won the 2013 Crash Test Drama Final.

Qantas Blues (With apologies to Peter Allen)

June 22, 2022 Rossleigh 29

To tune of “I Still Call Australia Home” I’ve waited for airplanes that refuse to take off From morning till night-time and then the next […]

Lacking Energy? It’s Labor’s Fault, Apparently…

June 17, 2022 Rossleigh 15

Sometimes I wonder why something that I see as a simple idea isn’t being suggested by people in public office. You know, simple things like […]

A Break From The Election: Florence Nightingale And Why No Women Ever Achieve Anything Much…

June 12, 2022 Rossleigh 4

From Santa Filomena by Henry Wadsworth Longellow “Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see           […]

Peter Dutton, Sussan Ley And Their Bold New Plan For Australia…

June 6, 2022 Rossleigh 10

Interviewer – Today we have someone who’s recently been elevated from the back bench of government to the front bench of opposition. Congratulations on your […]

Peter Dutton On Education And Re-education…

June 3, 2022 Rossleigh 16

Now, let me be quite clear here: I’m not being overly sensitive to Peter Dutton’s recent comments because I’ve spent a large part of my […]

“So Oskar Was Guilty Of Genocide: He Regrets It Now… “

May 30, 2022 Rossleigh 9

As Oskar said, “Just because I was a commandant commander doesn’t mean I liked following orders and I deeply regret everything now that the Allies […]

The Liberals – You Can Put Lipstick On A Pig But I’m Still Not Kissing It!

May 27, 2022 Rossleigh 14

A couple of weeks ago, I said a government is like your underwear; if you don’t change it occasionally, eventually people start to notice that […]

It has always been my hope that I would one day mock the left…and now

May 25, 2022 Rossleigh 17

Peter Dutton, unopposed. We need a girly thing to be Deputy to win women back… Suss Ley. Front runner. Oh god. I mean, oh god. […]

Why We Should Ignore Women And Greenies!

May 23, 2022 Rossleigh 43

Let me imagine that my wife tells me that she’s leaving me and when I ask her why, she tells me that I used to […]

Final Thoughts After The Long, Long Campaign…

May 20, 2022 Rossleigh 2

When Morrison started campaigning in 2019, most people expected him to lose. Even more people expected him to stop campaigning after the election, at least […]

Take The PM To The April Sun In Cuba…

May 19, 2022 Rossleigh 3

Recently I received a letter from John Howard telling me that he’d known Josh Frydenberg for twenty years and what a great chap he is […]

The Morrison Men And The Little Lady To Whom I Owe Such Excellent Descriptions!

May 16, 2022 Rossleigh 12

“My wife says that I’m far too modest and that I should remind people of what a great fixer I am. I would never do […]

Albanese Slammed For Being A Loose Unit By PM Whose Deputy Is Barnaby Joyce!

May 13, 2022 Rossleigh 15

Sometimes you just have to lay out what’s being said to sound like you’ve just written a script that sounds like you’re channelling the late […]

Frydenberg May Yet Be Lazarus With A Triple Bypass Just Like Howard…

May 10, 2022 Rossleigh 44

One of John Howard’s more famous quotes was, when asked about whether he’d contest the leadership after John Hewson lost in 1993, “That would be […]

Keep Josh? Will JoshKeeper Work?

May 8, 2022 Rossleigh 11

Back in January of this year, Josh Frydenberg was telling us: “With $424 billion accumulated on household and business balance sheets since the pandemic began, […]

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