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About Rossleigh
Rossleigh is a writer, director and education futurist. As a writer, his plays include “The Charles Manson Variety Hour”, “Pastiche”, “Snap!”, “That’s Me In The Distance”, “48 Hours (without Eddie Murphy)”, and “A King of Infinite Space”. His acting credits include “Pinor Noir Noir” for “Short and Sweet” and carrying the coffin in “The Slap”. His ten minute play, “Y” won the 2013 Crash Test Drama Final.
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Satire

Why Liberal Women Don’t Need Quotas (But Nationals Do)!

28 June 2025 Rossleigh 5
You have to feel sorry for Jacinta Nampijinapa Price… I mean apart from the fact that the bit between the “Jacinta” and the “Price” has those three dot things all together which had the potential […]
Man playing cricket, focused on the ball.
AIM Extra

Lucky We Didn’t Go For Nuclear…

19 June 2025 Rossleigh 1
Regular readers may have noticed that I try and stay out of the Middle East and there’s a good reason for that… apart from the potential Weapons of Mass Destruction which sometimes fall into the […]
A person riding a red underwater scooter with another diver nearby.
Satire

The Fabulous Submarines Deal!

13 June 2025 Rossleigh 2
The deal that Scott Morrison made was fabulous. There’s no other word for it. We need to make this clear to Richard Marles in case he hasn’t realised it for himself… Of course, the etymology […]
Two older adults exchanging a lighthearted moment, one wearing a mask with a flag design.
Satire

Why Scott Morrison Deserves His King’s Birthday Award!

12 June 2025 Rossleigh 13
It’s a pity that Malcolm Turnbull abolished the knighthoods that Tony Abbott had reinstated. While the Companion of the Order of Australia is now the highest honour, it just doesn’t roll of the tongue like […]
Two men in suits smiling and conversing at an event with an applauding audience.
Satire

But How Can The Liberals Be The Party Of Menzies When They Lost It?

8 June 2025 Rossleigh 11
From time to time I’ve read someone from the Liberals saying that they’re “the party of Menzies” which is a reference to some guy who once made a deal worthy of Donald Trump, where he […]
Person holding empty brown leather wallet.
Satire

Government Spending Is Out Of Control But We Need More Submarines!

4 June 2025 Rossleigh 6
The news makes me a little confused from time to time. For example, I recently saw a front page in Victoria how the state government was broke and we needed to fix the budget side […]
Red dirt road in Australia with text about getting Australia back on track.
Satire

The Opposition That Used To Be Known As Coalition…

26 May 2025 Rossleigh 10
In the aftermath of the election, I noticed a lot of comments from people in the parties that used to be known as the Coalition about the need to keep fighting. Stupidly, I presumed that […]
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Politics

From The Archives: 1984 is dated! Huxley Was Right!

25 May 2025 Rossleigh 2
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell […]
Bride and groom holding hands through a wooden fence outdoors.
Satire

Sussan And David: A Marriage Of Inconvenience!

23 May 2025 Rossleigh 6
Scene: A counsellor’s office. Counsellor – I’d like to welcome you both and start by saying that this is a great first step… David – I’d like to point out that this was her idea. […]
Two men in suits, one wearing glasses.
Satire

Dutton’s Dud Prediction And Breaking Up Is Sometimes Easy To Do…

20 May 2025 Rossleigh 5
Now General Sedgwick can rest easy in his grave. His famous last words were: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”. However, after the landslide Labor win, Peter Dutton’s assertion that they were the […]
Tim Wilson speaks at the Australian Libertarian Society and Australian Taxpayers' Alliance 2015 conference on "property rights as human rights."
Satire

Conservatives: “The Voting System Is Unfair If We Lose”!

15 May 2025 Rossleigh 5
‘After the election, Labor is now emboldened. And their objective is to inflict tax violence on wealth and deliver revenue for their spending agenda while crowing they’re balancing the budget from the blood they can […]
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Satire

Explaining The Election Result To My Wife…

14 May 2025 Rossleigh 4
My wife was expressing some amazement at the size of Labor’s win in the election result so I decided to give her one of my analogies to help her understand exactly what had happened. “It’s […]
Adam Bandt and another person at a political event in Melbourne.
Satire

Vale Peter Dutton And RIP The Liberal Party…

8 May 2025 Rossleigh 4
Well, there have been quite a bit of commentary on how gracious the ex-Opposition leader was in defeat. I’d have to say that some people found it surprising given his total lack of grace throughout […]
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Satire

The Potential Labor Landslide – Take 2

2 May 2025 Rossleigh 6
In June last year, I wrote a piece called “The Potential Labor Landslide”… Of course the downside to writing satire most of the time is that people tend not to notice that a lot of […]
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Satire

Cost Of Living Crisis But Eggs Are Cheap According To Dutton…

28 April 2025 Rossleigh 7
There are moments that turn an election campaign… I mean, all of them. Every moment turns an election campaign because either something significant happens or it doesn’t. If it does then that’s significant but if […]

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