Murdoch’s monster Trump all trussed up and in for a wild ride
A hog-tied Joe Biden is depicted in a life-size decal on the tailgate of a pickup truck in an image Donald Trump posts on Truth […]
Kevin Rudd
Fake democracy
Leaders from “approximately 110 countries were invited to take part in” President Biden’s two-day Summit for Democracy. The complete list of participating countries can be […]
Hasta la vista, baby! I won’t be back
I noticed a marked shift in sentiment this 4th of July. I admit to being a reader of tea leaves and a man who pays […]
Ms Gillard’s sickening hypocrisy laid bare
It was with disbelief, and finally contempt, that I watched excerpts of the Al Jazeera interview with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the topic […]
I hope Rupert is happy
There was a time not so long ago when Australia’s future looked bright. In 2008, Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generation and COAG agreed to […]
Squeaky Clean
Putting aside the fact that Julia Gillard was treated as a back-stabbing-murderess after she replaced Kevin Rudd as PM. Putting aside that she was labelled […]
Against radicalisation
By Barry Hindess My title might seem to suggest an hostility to radicalisation, that is, to the thing itself – and thus as endorsing the […]
Money Is No Object!
Paul Sheahan wrote something rather interesting today… Well, that’s incorrect. He wrote something that caught my eye. And I’m trying to work out whether the […]
The same but different …
When Turnbull ‘knifed’ Abbott a week ago after publically shaming Abbott’s terrible government on national television while announcing his intent-to-knife, I wondered how the mainstream […]
Democracy and diversity: media ownership in Australia
“To protect democracy, governments have an obligation to detect and remove political bias within the media” writes David Vadori. We couldn’t agree more. David, a […]
Writing the Narrative, or should that be “Righting the Narrative”?
“As a result, a story has emerged about Labor that goes like this. Faced with the transformation of its old supporter base, and having failed […]
Chomsky, Alanis Morisette and Irony
“The political policies that are called conservative these days would appall any genuine conservative, if there were one around to be appalled. For example, the […]
What happened when asylum seekers were sent back to Indonesia: Tony Abbott’s own words
In mid-October 2009, 78 Tamil asylum seekers were intercepted en route to Australia and taken on board the Oceanic Viking. They were then taken to […]
Why Labor Lost
Firstly: The truth of the matter is that my Party is at times its own worst enemy. For the six years Labor has been in […]
Meanwhile, in other news
I can’t help but notice how lazy many of the political journalists in the mainstream media have been during this election campaign. It is evident […]