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Futile and Dangerous: Bombing Yemen in the Name of Shipping
What a show. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was promoting a message of calm restraint and firm control in limiting the toxic fallout […]
Michelle Obama for President? Yes, she can!
By guest columnist Tess Lawrence Michelle Obama for President? Yes, of course. Is it even a thing? Absolutely. It makes sense out of Donald Trump’s […]
Peter Dutton And Albo’s Special Sort Of Weakness…
Interviewer: Tonight we have a spokesman for Peter Dutton because he wasn’t available so we have Noah Dear to explain what Mr Dutton meant when […]
Censoring Israeli Violence: Western Media Outlets Capitulate
The cathedral of censorship is a vast, airy one. In its embrace, texts are abridged, images removed, ideas scrubbed. Historical inconveniences are filed and rendered […]
The demise of social cohesion is what threatens us most, and the Coalition has thrived on it
Internal bickering between ingrained, imported, or cultivated groups can have the most ruinous consequences for a nation’s social cohesion, particularly those of a multicultural mix […]
Chaos and confusion are intentional weapons: Albanese must strengthen not weaken the misinformation bill
The Albanese government announced this week that it would weaken proposed disinformation-suppressing measures because the Coalition was implacably opposed to them. It is hardly surprising […]
The Strange Case Of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Politics is a strange game… Now, I realise a lot of people are going to tell me that it’s not a game and that political […]
A farce only a monster could love
The ‘No’ campaign and the Trumpifaction of the tinpotato It has been said that Donald Trump appealed to many millions of Americans because he gave […]
Fascism is unlikely: idiocy is the real threat
The fight against domestic fascism is as American as apple pie. Even though much of the modern mythology of the western world celebrates the USA […]
Murdoch: King Lear or Citizen Kane?
By guest columnist Tess Lawrence It may be premature to write Emeritus Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s epitaph now that he’s ostensibly handed the keys of his […]
AUSMIN and Assange: The Great Vassal Smackdown
It was there for all to see. Embarrassing, cloying, and bound make you cough up the remnants of your summit lunch, US Secretary of State […]
Lazy language damages our present and risks our future
Labels have power. They shape the way we know the world. They allow people to see actions with greater clarity or distort our understanding to […]
A Robodebt response from a leader full of loathing
So incensed was I with the Leader of the Opposition’s response to the Royal Commissions report into the Robodebt Scheme that for a brief moment, […]
Don’t you worry about that
Former Queensland Premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen frequently used the expression ‘don’t you worry about that’ when he either didn’t want to answer the question, or knew […]