Executive Donkeys and War Powers Reform
The decision to go to war should be as burdensome as possible. The more impediments to such folly, the better. Such a state of affairs […]
Politics
The high moral ground
If you’re not Queensland LNP Senator Gerard Rennick, you’ll understand there is a connection between the burning of fossil fuel and increasing levels of CO2 […]
Australian Interest Rates on Hold: More Permanent Relief from Cost of Living Pressures?
By Denis Bright The cheers of relief from staff members in the Nine Newsroom following the announcement of the pause in increases in the RBA’s […]
Dutton: Mutton dressed as ram
By guest columnist Tess Lawrence Peter Dutton is a dead man talking. While we’re at it, the Liberal Party is a dead party walking. Like […]
Give a little bit
There were two equally significant history making moments in Australian politics in the last week.The better known one was the ALP’s claiming of the seat […]
Aston By-Election: The Electoral Light on the Hill for a New Change Agenda?
By Denis Bright Mary Doyle’s victory in Aston is another milestone in Australia’s emergence from the shadows of neoliberalism and frightening compromises with our national […]
Inglorious Inertia: The Albanese Government and Julian Assange
The sham that is the Assange affair, a scandal of monumental proportions connived in by the AUKUS powers, shows no signs of abating. Prior to […]
Victorian MLC Moira Deeming: the pretty face of a scary ideology
“I can’t wait until I’m legally able to hunt you down.” This curse was said to an American trans women in the streets of Oklahoma […]
Nazis on our streets: don’t judge protesters by politeness
On some level, it is straightforward for a Neo-Nazi protest to be easy for police to handle. As we saw on the streets of Melbourne […]
Murdoch’s Zero Sum games: divisive propaganda meant to break us
The Murdoch media drives resentment with propaganda as constant as drums of war. The pounding message for its audience is that every development is a […]
Fresh Start for NSW: Premier Chris Minns Temporarily Extends Labor’s National Outreach
By Denis Bright The NSW election results were a historical milestone in Australia’s political history. Labor is in control of both the federal government and […]
AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and Growing Dissent
It was a sight to behold and took the wind out of the bellicose sails of the AUKUS cheer squad. Here, at the National Press […]
China, the United States, and us
Some people can easily remember what they were doing at the time of significant events. The shooting of John F Kennedy or John Lennon. Or The moon […]
Denying First Nations people a voice will achieve nothing
For some reason, I find myself yet again writing about this referendum. Why can’t people comprehend the simplicity of it? Is it because Aboriginal people […]
From Balloons to AUKUS: The War Drive Against China
When will this hate-filled nonsense stop? Surveillance balloons treated like evocations of Satan and his card-carrying followers; other innumerable unidentified phenomena that, nonetheless, remain attributable […]