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When Tony Abbott was elected unopposed as Federal President of the Liberal Party on Friday, 29 May, I wasn’t surprised. The party’s inability to comprehend genuine change is striking. After their resounding election defeat, one […]

How do I judge the whimsical lyrical? How do I nudge nonsensical rhyme? Quirky and mischievous bytes of reason, barely a miracle nearly sublime. (Heeri Allam AB 2019) Schools, dictionaries, people beware – mute point […]

What is a dummy spit? A dummy spit is an Australian term describing the act of reacting to disappointment with disproportionate outrage. Americans may know it as: A meltdown. A tantrum. A Truth Social post. […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock   What began as Israel’s obliteration in Gaza now extends to Lebanon, Iran and the Gulf, thanks to US arms and finance. If diplomacy fails to interrupt this trajectory, the expansive […]

Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza undertaken by Israeli forces is now finding full expression in […]

Why have Australians, otherwise alert to unfairness and quick to condemn political failure, accepted a settlement around work and housing that now punishes so many of them? Exhaustion is the familiar answer, with people absorbed […]

You would have been living under a rock with earmuffs on if you had not heard the confected outrage from the Liberal, National, and One Nation Parties’ coalition of grievance and misinformation, underscored by the […]

It’s all too easy to be harsh on Donald Trump. Because of his fabulous depravity, his magpie greed, his gift for finding the cruellest option and mistaking it for strength, his colossal, if not grotesque […]

“The stars are quiet. The files are a spectacle. And the only mystery worth solving is right here, right now.” Dedication: To my wife – who knows exactly what to do when I mutter “beam […]

The Albanese Government should be basking in the rewards from those four years of cautious financial policy priorities. The benefits of prudent economic management, avoidance of unnecessary military engagement and outstanding energy transition agendas have […]

It sounds like an acute sewerage burst, but as much political commentary rests on the tired cliché, we see the language of liquid velocity apply to parties that suddenly emerge in the polls as portentously […]

It is a rather nauseating entertainment, watching Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles wriggling around to con the public into believing that it will be cheaper for Australia to buy used nuclear submarines, than to buy […]