“No emerging crisis so big the government can’t find a way to look past it.”
A massive pall of smoke cloaks NSW and shrouds Canberra as the state burns in a catastrophic mega-fire already the size of greater Sydney. Too […]
Peter Dutton
A Whale of a Taylor – too.
“People aren’t spending” sighs Fran Kelly at the end of ABC Insiders Sunday, blaming us for the government’s epic failure to manage the economy. It’s […]
Beyond a Morrison Police State.
“This is not about free speech, it’s not about the ability to protest, these people are completely against our way of life,” former Queensland drug […]
Surplus to requirements, ScoMo?
Applause, stamping, hoots and catcalls resound up and down our wide brown land as another big week in Oz-politics lives down to expectations, as John […]
The Antichrist is a potato
By Grumpy Geezer Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there! He wasn’t there again today, Oh how I wish he’d go […]
When will Morrison and his government be held to account?
“With everything that’s going on at the moment we need to be in the tent and we need to know what’s going on – and […]
Morrison’s monumental dysfunctional Pacific “family” failure
No matter how much money you put on the table it doesn’t give you the excuse not to do the right thing, which is cutting […]
CPAC’s travelling show can pack up and go home. And stay there.
“I’ve been to the border,” Fox TV’s Judge Jeanine Pirro says. US citizens living there talk of “rape trees” upon which the clothes of rape […]
“He’s the closest to a statesman we have”
On Friday, Phil Coorey published an article in the AFR lauding the credentials of Peter Dutton as a future Prime Minister. He quotes an unnamed […]
Is Barnaby auditioning for a new band?
On Friday, Barnaby Joyce posted the following on his Facebook page: The fastest growing sector of our economy is agriculture where farmers are doing the […]
A big day for a little man
It was a big day yesterday for our newly minted Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton. Firstly, Dutton’s hand-picked choice to head his paramilitary Border Force, […]
The profound nastiness of the Turnbull government
It was inevitable that any opposition by the ALP or Greens to Abbott’s reeking legacy, the proposed plebiscite on marriage equality, would provide the Turnbull […]
Dutton’s message: torture works
Yesterday I had a Twitter conversation about Kathryn Bigelow’s movie, Zero Dark Thirty, which was shown on SBS last night. Many angry critics have described the […]
Why is the Australian Government so frightened of David Icke?
“Why is the Australian Government so frightened of David Icke?” asks Mandy Kane. On Tuesday 15 December, UK based researcher David Icke posted a video […]
The immigration ministers and the Grand Mufti. And torture.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, along with former Immigration Ministers Scott Morrison and Philip Ruddock, took to the media last week to voice their disapproval of […]