Dutton circles, poised to attack, sensing Turnbull’s blood in the water.
A conga-line of suck-holes and the odd cross-bencher form a blue-grey-suited crush up the raspberry carpeted steps of the senate, Tuesday, as members of our […]
Articles by David Tyler
Turnbull’s leadership a sham as he seeks to evade GBRF scandal, climate change with a dodgy NEG.
“Our efforts to deal with climate change have been betrayed by a lack of leadership, a political cowardice, the like of which I have never […]
Turnbull snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in its Super Saturday massacre 28 July, (National Drowning Prevention Day) the Coalition is quick to spin its […]
Not so super Saturday for Turnbull but silencing of dissent a winner.
Love is in the air is on endless loop at PM’s eleven-week, five by-election, 500,000 voter dance marathon. It’s a bizarre, grotesque, contest as bone-weary […]
Look out! Bill is right behind you.
Trump’s “surrender summit”, his love-in with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki, Monday, almost upstages our long-running local political panto, “Look out, Bill’s behind you”, […]
Who’s the real baby here, Mr Trump?
Who’s the real baby here? A monster orange balloon-effigy of Trump as an angry baby in a nappy, complete with blonde comb-over and blue mobile […]
Abbott’s subversion fails, yet Turnbull succeeds in undermining a fair and just society.
“The nose of Cleopatra, if it had been shorter, would have changed the face of the Earth,” ventured philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1669.… […]
Turnbull’s Kill Bill show can’t hide his failure to sell his NEG to his back bench.
Is it back to the future? Or is it déjà vu? The Coalition fails to win over its coal lobby to its Clayton’s National Energy […]
Aspirational? Don’t try to take us for ride, Mr Turnbull.
Aging chestnut mare, Aspirational, returns to the Canberra track, next week, in the lead-up to The Super Saturday By-election Stakes, to be run 28 July. […]
Can Trump’s Singapore Summit farce alert us to the need to protect our own democracy?
“A new story, a new beginning, one of peace. Two men, two leaders, one destiny. A story in a special moment in time. When a […]
Nothing but blue ties from now on? Or academic and democratic freedom?
Blue ties Smiling at me Nothing but blue ties Do I see (With apologies to Irving Berlin) “Blue ties … nothing but blue ties” […]
Effing get over it: Hunt gives Turnbull government a new motto.
“Fucking get over it”, is Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt’s uplifting advice to 71 year old Fay Miller, Mayor of Katherine, who dared front Hunt […]
Hastie goes over the top while Hanson spills the beans.
Petty, vindictive, political bastardry, the signature theme of our bastardised, post-modern, dog-eat-dog politics, erupts far and wide this week, from magical fabulist, US pseudo-President, mob […]
Does the Coalition have a woman problem or just a problem being human?
Does the Coalition have a woman problem? Or a “female” problem as Education Minister and Gonski-con-artist, simple Simon Birmingham puts it? Or just your everyday, […]
Bill’s a liar? ScoMo, your own pants are on fire
“Liar”, screeches Scott Morrison, the pot calling the kettle black, opting fittingly for a personal insult rather than a reply to Bill Shorten’s Budget reply, […]