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History is not just a record of what happened; it is an argument about what matters. The stories we choose to tell, and those we choose to forget, reveal our deepest biases and our greatest […]

The Dismissal at Fifty: Who Pulled the Strings? Half a century after 11 November 1975, the questions still burn. Who orchestrated the fall of Gough Whitlam’s government? In this four-part series – first published on […]

Fifteen thousand kilometres from the chamber in Canberra where she ought to be, Pauline Hanson takes two weeks off from her day job to finesse her selfie at Donald J Trump’s Mar-a-Lago CPAC. Hard work? […]

Why trust these gold seeking buffoons of questionable expertise? Overpaid as they are by gullible clients who really ought to know better, consultancy firms are now getting paid for work done by non-humans, conventionally called […]

By Walt Zlotow   Senators voted down a bi-partisan War Powers Resolution to stop President Trump from launching his likely military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government of Nicholas Maduro. The bill, proposed in support […]

The horrors of the 20th century were not anomalies. The Nazi regime in the West and Imperial Japan in the East were not monstrous singularities, but the most extreme manifestations of a logic that is […]

The Dismissal at Fifty: Who Pulled the Strings? Half a century after 11 November 1975, the questions still burn. Who orchestrated the fall of Gough Whitlam’s government? In this four-part series – first published on […]

Nearly a decade has passed since I penned the thoughts that follow, and now I feel compelled to revisit them (with a few thoughtful tweaks and expansions) in pursuit of a deeper understanding of what […]

Tonight a rare first. Bruce Dawe. Yes? No. It’s the poet Bruce Dawe, not the Bryan Dawe we meant to invite. Look it’s an easy mistake and we are being honest about it. Yes. Of […]

Enter Pauline Hanson. BJ considers his options. Net zero is the issue. Equivalent to Barnaby’s achievements after 20 years in politics. As Coalition hard right loons prepare to defenestrate Sussan Ley, barking Barmy Joyce the […]

The world of defence policy is truly on another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings. Threats can be invented or exaggerated. Insecurity can be inflated. Decisions for the next project […]