In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Stoking the fires of energy policy
Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…
Polling payday for pollies
Politics is big business in Australia. The major parties rake in stupendous amounts of donations every election cycle and have…
Fair go, mate!
The first time I heard the phrase ‘fair go!’ I was a young reporter new to Australia from Britain and…
Restoring Menzies’ Australia
I came to Australia from India in December 2000 where I had been a senior civil servant fighting socialist policy…
The endless repeat of history
Many of our collective disasters are shaped by a lack of imagination. We tend to privilege what we know or…
Lest we forget
For the youngest two generations, the shadow of war has fallen into myth. It is a story bored (and increasingly…
Two million reasons to be optimistic
The two million data points provided by NSW Health in 2022 paint a picture about the current severity of Covid…
New Zealand ‘trusts’ China on extradition
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, under Ardern’s Labour government, has set another scary precedent in relation to China. ‘I don’t think…
Happy families vs noisy activism
I have a genuine problem this election concerning which political party will get my consent to govern. The problem posed…
Once a socialist, always a socialist
I remember the first time I sat in the old town square in Poznan, Poland. I was so taken by…
An unholy affair: wooing religious voters on the cheap
It may be something in the air during the Easter period (or coincidence…?) but over the past couple of weeks,…
Greenwich threatens Perrottet’s minority government
Imagine a government falling because its leader dared to assert that girls should play sport against girls. You might not…
Social trust with Covid is fragile
‘Can you please take off the face nappies?’ the workshop coordinator’s reading glasses magnify his eyes so they resemble a…
The fight for sovereignty
‘Sovereignty’ is back in mainstream headlines. Whilst it is, dare I say – nice – to have a break from the incessant…
The (not so quiet) Australians are fed up
I am fed up with non-stop griping about politicians. I am fed up with media, reporters, and commentators who are…
Supporting women in sport is a winner for Morrison
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and ex-Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott are right to support Katherine Deves, the Liberal…
Frivolous games or serious politics?
How a war changes things… It was only a few short months ago that Boris Johnson’s prime ministership looked distinctly…
Steering clear of the WorkChoices-IR trap
Calls by ‘big end of towners’ for industrial relations reforms amount to little more than kicking election campaign goals for the union…
‘Blessed’ or a bigot?
Like the Prime Minister, I’m blessed to have healthy children. And if you believe senior Labor politicians, that makes me…
Albanese is riding solo
With around a month left before the federal election, Anthony Albanese finds himself in a similar position that Prime Minister…
Why I stand shoulder to shoulder with Deves
The death threats that Katherine Deves is now receiving are a direct result of the corrupted journalism that is performed in this…
So, you want a federal corruption watchdog?
What constitutes corruption for a watchdog? Merriam-Webster Definition of corruption 1a: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as…
The fertility paradox – poverty vs prosperity
The world population had risen from 2.5 billion in 1950, to 6 billion in 2000, and now sits at over…
Protecting women is not a ‘dead cat strategy’
It was a mistake for Zali Steggall to refer to the protection of women, girls, and children as a ‘dead…
Unexplained pregnancies at the women-only Edna Mahan Correctional Facility
[Calm down, it’s satire.] Two inmates at a women-only prison are reportedly pregnant after getting a little too friendly with…
