ScoMo and co take us one week closer to fascism
“During this campaign we looked like a government in waiting. They looked like an opposition. It is time that the fourth estate held the government […]
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Beyond the Palace Letters
This is a kind of tragic-comic opera – an opera buffa, in many acts and parts, observed by a traveller to Australia who is likely […]
This Election, Try Telling the Truth
Having a good memory for past federal elections and the tactics employed, going back as far as 1958, I cannot recall a time when dishonesty […]
Adani: some inconvenient truths
By Phil Gorman Let the facts speak for themselves. Queensland’s workforce 2.36 million people are employed in Queensland. The tourist industry directly or indirectly employs […]
Night Parrot Confections: The Dangers of Discovering the Elusive
Discoveries of natural flora, fauna and phenomena are not necessarily straightforward things. The discoverer may wish to conceal the source. The discoverer may also have […]
Hugs won’t fix your government’s Islamophobia, ScoMo.
If a lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on, what does it take for a Prime Minister to […]
The Good News according to Josh
It has been the legacy of Conservative governments over the past 50 years to deliver underperforming economies to incoming Labor governments while at the same […]
No, ScoMo, you can’t have Snowy 2.0 and coal-fired power too.
“What we are talking about here is reliable, renewable, energy,” gurgles a pumped PM, Tuesday. He stands in the same spot as Turnbull, before ScoMo […]
No, ScoMo, the last thing we need is a Tampa 2.0 election or a 90 day season of Kill Bill.
There’s something about the debate around asylum seekers that taps into the darkness in the souls of millions of Australians. There’s a reflexive suspicion and […]
Our politics is not reality TV
“Politics is not a reality television show,” scowls ScoMo, in a cameo piece to camera, Thursday, in the “most hysterical presser in our nation’s political […]
Words can fly and words can bite
By George Theodoridis Exhibit 1: Justin Milne to Guthrie (via email): “…I just think it’s simple. Get rid of her. My view is we need to […]
Lose our democracy? It’s as easy as ABC.
“We need a president who isn’t a laughing stock to the entire world. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. […]
ScoMo’s debut ruined by his own treachery
“You are a fucking mendicant,” Scott Morrison tells Tassie Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, reports Paul Bongiorno who quotes a Herald Sun article, Wednesday, citing “senior Liberal […]
Meaningless Titles and Liveable Cities: Melbourne loses to Vienna
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has gone about its annual business of releasing its World’s Most Liveable City index, the sort of flotsam that matters […]
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 […]