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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…

I learned a lot from my drag queen housemate. Living with a drag queen was kind of like cohabitating with a fabulous tornado, which also knows all the lyrics to every Cher song. I also learned how much glitter the human eyeball can withstand (a surprising amount). In the morning after my housemate had performed…

April is ‘Autism Awareness Month’, a controversial month for autistic people, mainly because the group who fronts it, Autism Speaks, has been linked to direct attacks on the autistic community through inhumane acts like eugenics and Sia’s unwatchable mess of a movie (which was also super ableist). Autism Speaks uses the month as a way…

In a Manhattan courtroom this month, the world witnessed (and by world, I mean those who give a fig about Donald Trump) another instalment in the long running American soap opera, Trump – America’s Most Wanted. Series 8 in our episodic melodrama has something for everyone; an aggrieved, convicted former lawyer, a smart-mouthed, pneumatically breasted…

Australia is in the middle of a rental crisis, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, in the middle of an inflation crisis, in the middle of a climate crisis. It’s crises all the way down; a crisis babushka.  Anyone attending a rental inspection could be forgiven for despairing upon seeing 40-50 people, all in…