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On the 30th of August 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held a press conference with Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and gambling ad spokesperson Dr Shaquile O’Neal to announce a referendum on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advisory body of First Nations people who talk to Indigenous groups on a state and…

On the same day Afghan farmer Ali Jan was smashed off a rocky cliff by Ben Roberts-Smith with such force the farmer’s face split open and his teeth exploded out of his face, Australia’s then Defence Minister Stephen Smith was occupied in an ABC studio telling Australians,  “The Australian Defence Force and its personnel have…

The shock expressed at the amorality of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ brazen misuse of confidential Government information is understandable and overdue. Not just overdue because the initial breach of confidentiality took place in 2013 and was detected by the ATO in 2016, but because the sky-rocketing use of consultants in the Australian Public Service (APS) since the election…

The ABC has lost its way. On the most recent Insiders program on our ABC, Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather is defending his party’s position on Labor’s affordable housing bill. David Speers questions the efficacy of rent caps and their impacts on housing supply, and the Member replies that there is evidence of them working in…

I carry with me the fuzzy cognitive dissonance of a white man educated in a settler colony, an old land with new rulers, an Imperial outpost trying to be better, more inclusive and kinder but refusing to go to therapy, refusing to listen, refusing to admit there might indeed be some unreconciled structural hurt surrounding…

It’s been a rocky old quarter for Labor’s spinmeisters, what with Prime Minister Albanese’s footsies with Kyle-who-needs-sensitivity-training, all while spending so much time playing in the middle of the road he’s in danger of having white lines painted down the centre of his back. Not only did we have the Prime Minister of Australia sharing…

Today’s young people have grown up watching ‘grown ups’ hurl shit at the world’s metaphorical fan, well past the point of maximum shit saturation – the world’s scientists nervously pointing out the truly alarming quantity of shit on the walls – knowing full well that at some point it will be our job to clean…

Common stealth games Half a million children are abused in the UK every year, last year’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) reported. That’s an average of 62 cases a day. Never mind that though. Bend a knee for the new king in silk sashes on the gilded throne, whose trusted advisers liked…

The government rammed home the latest Defence Strategic Review (DSR) on the eve of ANZAC day, when we honour the dead and nod solemnly at the horror and folly of war. The dawn services blew ‘The Last Post’ from Clovelly to Çanakkale, and the ‘Missile Age’ was all of a sudden drummed into the Australian…

If you’re an Australian adult forty years and younger you have already lived through a pandemic, multiple financial crises, fuck knows how many recessions, countless “once in a lifetime” fires and floods, war on mainland Europe and eternally in the Middle-East, a toppling of the global superpower order, ecological collapse, growing wealth inequality, a worsening…