Team Dutton duds women; snubs gender equality, bipartisanship and democracy
Actions speak louder than words if not nearly as often, while inactions can speak louder than both. The Liberals are paying lip service to a […]
Politics
What has age got to do with it?
The ongoing commentary about the relative ages of the two Presidential candidates is becoming tedious. What matters most is their ability to lead. By the […]
Human potential is crushed by disaster capitalism
We must speak to people who require assistance and listen to their needs instead of speaking over them. In the case of Australia’s refugee policy, […]
Censors Celebrated: Misinformation and Disinformation Down Under
The heralded arrival of the Internet caused flutters of enthusiasm, streaks of heart-felt hope. Unregulated, and supposedly all powerful, an information medium never before seen […]
Archer, Pocock win McKinnon Prize for outstanding political leadership
Federal Member for Bass Bridget Archer and ACT Senator David Pocock have been announced as winners of the McKinnon Prize, Australia’s independent, non-partisan award for […]
Should I Leave My Wife For Princess Catherine And Other Pointless Debates…
Now I could start this evening’s meal by telling my wife that I’m leaving her for Kate Middleton but I’m not going to do that […]
Labor Hegemony Under Threat? Perspectives on the By-Election in Ipswich West
By Denis Bright The tidal wave swing against Labor in the Ipswich West by-election on 16 March 2024 created no ripples on the stagnant Bremer […]
Predictable Outcomes: Australia, the National Security Committee, and invading Iraq
Archivists can be a dull if industrious lot. Christmas crackers are less important than the new year announcement in Canberra, when the National Archives of […]
Dutton’s bid for nuclear power: hoax or reckless endangerment?
It’s incredible. Such is our love-in with Peter “Junkyard” Dutton, our former Border Overlord, who used to play the bad cop dispensing rough justice–doing whatever […]
Issues Changing the Nation: Never Ending AUKUS Submarine Policy Sagas
By Denis Bright The issue of AUKUS has resurfaced from the murky depths of undersea politics. ABC News graphics (featured image) reminds readers of the […]
Illiberalism: the Dunkley by-election and the cost of doing business
The liberal international order has been responsible for a great many deaths. If the “anti-liberal internationale” becomes ascendant, however, we will see those numbers multiplied […]
Matters of Revenue: Meta Abandons Australia’s Media Stable
It was praised to the heavens as a work of negotiated and practical genius when it was struck. The then Australian treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had […]
Floozy Sussie and the racist gambit
From whinging, whining and blowing snot bubbles to playing to the Klueless Klutz Klan From objet d’ridicule to vile scrubber “The real competition now is […]
By-election for Cook
Department of the House of Representatives Media Release The Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon Milton Dick MP, has issued the writ for the election […]
A Broken Land
By James Moore “The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through […]