The LNP went down without so much as a whimper on May 21 2022. It was a defeat one could blame on many factors; race, misogyny and right-wing MPs of the Liberal and National parties. And those same people are still around today. You know who I mean – yesterday’s men who still believe it’s…
Over this last weekend, the latest American CPAC convention took place in Maryland. This one did not host the autocrat Viktor Orban, CPAC’s poster fascist. Instead it gave an anti-electoral integrity microphone to Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s defeated autocrat in the making. And two long hours were dominated by aspiring-autocrat Donald Trump. Maryland featured a series…
The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species introduced into the country by his ancestors, and demanding their annihilation. During the near-lunatic display by Barnaby Joyce, even his own colleagues betrayed embarrassment and alarm at the full-throated shrieks of “carp, carp”. With…
Ok, I have this slightly absurd concept and I may get back to it later. HOWEVER I’ve been stopped in my tracks by this whole superannuation tax broken promise thing and the Stella performance of Angus Taylor now. Ok that should be ‘stellar” but after the typo I could help but think of Marlon Brando…
Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues that have largely remained aspirational. It was timed to coincide with G20 talks in New Delhi, which has seen a flurry of contentious meetings traversing security, economics and education, all taking…
By Maria Millers From the coffee culture of our suburbs, barbeques and dinner parties to our various media outlets there is an ingrained reluctance, in fact a determined avoidance, to discuss contentious or alternative views to issues that are preoccupying us, among them the war in Ukraine and the Israeli/ Palestinian conflict. In a society…
Former Government Services Minister Stuart Robert appeared at the Robodebt Royal Commission last week and attempted to do as so many others have done – blame someone else. As The Guardian reported Repeatedly he made comments directly at odds with what he now tells the commission he believed: that the scheme was deeply flawed. In…
If you’re wondering about the Voice to Parliament, I urge you to watch this video of an information night held by Monica Ryan MP for her Kooyong electorate. Monique does an intro, there are two excellent and involved speakers, an Aboriginal man from central Victoria and a Torres Strait Islander man from the Top End,…
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I am not a journalist. As a writer, I don’t know what label people put on me. Blogger, perhaps? Columnist? Most certainly, l don’t write like one. l just write about such things as Super concessions to wealthy people. As I recall, it was in November 2013 that I was so disgusted with the then…
When Public Image Limited sang: “Anger is an energy,” they certainly had a point. I mean sometimes things only happen when you’re angry. However… This is a big HOWEVER and I’m not sure how to make it any bigger. I remember reading this book by Rutger Bergman and thinking, yeah, most of us are just…