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Scott Morrison is going troll hunting. Well, there’s more in his announcement of new laws targeting social media and the…
Liberal support is disintegrating – but barely going to Hanson, Palmer or the LDP
If you follow The Guardian Australia’s overexcited live politics blog and dip in and out of Twitter, this week’s parliamentary…
The glass half empty and the glass half full spin on George Christensen
By announcing that he’ll withhold his support on legislation until the government acts to override state vaccine mandates, George Christensen…
Everything you need to know about the shock ‘Daniel Andrews will romp home’ Newspoll
An election is 12 months away. It’s an academic exercise. (Ok. It does show the Victorian Liberal Party remains about…
Adem Somyurek vs Daniel Andrews: don’t laugh, this isn’t funny
Forget House of Cards. This is more like that season of Dallas that turned out to be a dream. The…
Who stands with Dan? The cult revealed
Who, exactly, make up the members of the Cult of Dan, those hashtag warriors who instead of rattling off Hail…
#DanIsWobbling?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the Politbureau of Danandrewstan meets. Today’s concessions on the Pandemic Bill…
Is ScoMo really enjoying a conservative revival?
Scott Morrison is winning back support from conservative voters? That’s how the improvement in the Coalition’s primary vote in today’s…
Back for one day only, Paul Keating
As we were reminded many, many times 30 years ago — that’s a generation, by the way — Paul Keating…
Has Queensland turned on ScoMo for going green?
Monday marked the last feasible date for a federal election to be called this year. There was no Newspoll that…
After a week, a semblance of sense on submarines
It’s only taken a week to get here, but at last we’re seeing some semblance of sense over Australia’s future…
Woke corporates divide us
Last week, as our papers filled with greenwash and Scott Morrison worked on the betrayal of his “quiet Australians” ahead…
The Coalition’s climate stand: just like pissing in a wetsuit
Let’s just keep things nice and simple. Now we have the (lack of) details we can safely declare that the…
Pru Goward and the road to Wigan Pier
Has there ever been a more pathetic display of bile-reeking, attention-seeking, virtue-signalling conspicuous compassion from the woke and the wonderful…
ScoMo goes crazy on the green Kool-Aid
Forget the red cordial. The green is the really dangerous stuff — and Scott Morrison has a bellyful of it…
The Bureau of Statistics bells the cat on lockdown and jobs
Today’s unemployment figures give a picture-perfect snapshot of the impact of lockdown on jobs. The unemployment rate increased to 4.6%,…
Gladys goes. Will the NSW government?
How Gladys Berejiklian has fallen. It’s been just five months from her The woman who saved Australia front page of the…
Daniel Andrews gets the wooden spoon
It’s been a big week for Daniel Andrews. He has revealed that his “roadmap” out of lockdown is as reliable…
New polling: Australians say fire up the nukes
This is one of those bonus weeks for poll wonks when we get a Newspoll on Monday and the fortnightly…
The really worrying news in Newspoll for Scott Morrison
Reporting on today’s Newspoll has focussed on seat outcomes, a bit of a mug’s game as it assumes equal swings…
Orthodox Church attacks Gladys and Dan
On a day where one particular faith has been targeted in unprecedented ways, with residents in Melbourne’s “Bagel Belt” taking…
Thirty per cent of Coalition voters question if ScoMo deserves another win
The fortnightly Essential Poll is out today, eclipsed (as it all too often is) by the Monday Newspoll, despite showing…
Cowardly Lions: Labor lets through the Coalition’s shameful electoral laws
Today, Labor waved the Coalition’s cowardly electoral laws described in these pages 11 days ago designed to strangle smaller parties…
$1 million per month: more secret costs of vaccine failure
The Innovation Australia website has another cracking story. What’s the reward for the government’s vaccine rollout failure? A million dollars…
Who have we left behind, Dutton?
Just over four weeks ago, Defence Minister Peter Dutton told Sky News Australia of the importance of “getting the balance…
