Satire

It’s just past 10:00am in rural Queensland, the sun already baking the tin roof of the Rusty Pickaxe Pub. The “policy meeting” is set to kick off once the schooners arrive and someone locates the […]

An economist trapped in Trump’s tariff chaos is the perfect setup for absurdity. You can picture it: The economist wakes up to find that the tariff rate on imported cheese has changed three times before […]

Deep in the labyrinth of Parliament House, the LNP opposition huddles, plotting a path back to power. The problem isn’t a shortage of ideas – it’s that none lead anywhere useful. Three factions have emerged, […]

The sun rises quietly over Canberra, but not as quietly as the federal Opposition. It’s 7:00am. Somewhere, a shadow minister snoozes through a breakfast interview they weren’t invited to. The phone doesn’t ring. No one […]

Intro Once upon a time, being in opposition meant holding the government to account, proposing credible alternatives, and engaging in constructive debate. But in today’s LNP, those noble duties have been replaced by something far […]

Meet Jack. A Liberal voter since birth, he has never fully recovered from his hero’s shock defeat in the nightmarishly ghastly 2007 election. The hero being, of course, John Howard. If losing the election wasn’t […]

6:00 AM – The Murdoch News Alarm goes off. It’s Rowan Dean screaming “WOKE!” from a grandfather clock that hasn’t worked since the Howard years. Interns sprint to their desks, where headlines are already pre-written: “Labor’s […]

I just couldn’t help myself. The “Trump, Bots, and the Battle for the Algorithm” post published earlier today was screaming for some parody: Deep in a secret warehouse somewhere between Mar-a-Lago and a discarded MyPillow […]