Call off your dogs, Turnbull and scrap your attack on open government.
“We are very concerned at the growing gang violence and lawlessness in Victoria, in particular in Melbourne …This is a failure of the Andrews Labor […]
Articles by David Tyler
Turnbull’s New Year gang-bash plumbs new depths.
” … people are scared to go out to Melbourne restaurants of a night-time because they are followed home by these gangs …” People worry […]
If the shirt fits
His hot pink, red and blue striped Dolce & Gabbana shirt, a steal at a mere $850, is tailor-made for the occasion. Top-shelf apostolic poverty. […]
I’m dreaming of a Right Christmas.
Raucous, rowdy and sometimes bawdy, Christmas is upon us in a rush of beery bonhomie and sudden, univited, pressing of the flesh or worse, especially […]
Turnbull’s Yellow Peril 2.0 is the panda in the room.
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was […]
A double agent in the house? It’s the least of our worries.
Loud hosannas resound in Canberra. Hallelujah. Could it be the joyous news that Harry and Meghan Markle will grace us with their royal presence at […]
Turnbull government reaches peak bullshit in surreal week.
“Yes we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.” (Frank Silver, Irving Cohn from, Make it Snappy 1922.) “For every person who voted for […]
Turnbull begins week badly; ends in disaster.
When the going gets tough, the tough burrow under the bed-covers. Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, “a good man in a crisis”, and a “strong leader”, as […]
“See how the pangs of death doth make him grin.” Turnbull’s worst week ever.
Warwick: See how the pangs of death doth make him grin. William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act iii. Our PM and Opposition leader start […]
Turnbull government caught between crisis and catastrophe.
I don’t know what I’m doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm. Woody Allen The nation is spellbound this week as a […]
Turnbull government fails Australia on jobs and energy
Super Mal, our super-antihero PM, the down-under “wonder-gunner” blitzes Canberra’s political firmament this week, lighting up the sky with yet another dazzling flash of super-power […]
A government not remotely interested in health. Nor human rights.
“It is hardly necessary to say that the court is aware of the need to give its answers to these references with or without reasons […]
Turnbull’s new security suite will not make any of us any safer
Never get between a premier and a bucket of money, Paul Keating warned. Or a Premier and an anti-terror photo-opportunity, he might add, after Thursday’s […]
Turnbull’s fake gas crisis upstaged by Dutton’s real cruelty.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” … “The question […]
Abbott headbutt stops nation
It’s the head-butt that stops the nation. Tony Abbott is nutted by Astro Funknukl Labe, a 38 year-old North Hobart DJ. Labe, a barista, bartender […]