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“No one was expecting this result,” said a stunned David Speers, signing off from his on-the-pulse Aston by-election coverage, utterly bewildered that the thing happening an awful lot recently happened again.  As with the Victorian, NSW, and federal elections, Australia’s highest profile political commentators appear flummoxed by politics, defaulting into perfuming the stench of the…

In the great circus of Australian politics, it seems that One Nation’s Mark Latham has once again taken the role of the clown – or perhaps, more fittingly, the loose cannon. His recent childish tweet in response to a gay colleague has rightfully sparked an outcry across the country, with even Pauline Hanson condemning it…

Fuck Nazis, fuck TERFs

Or how to get away with not doing anything much at all

I used to have a sweet, very traumatised, abominably stupid dog, who wouldn’t go into the backyard to wee if it was raining. She would stand in the doorway, looking at the falling rain, crying and sometimes pissing herself. I tried all sorts of different tactics – umbrellas, coaxing her out with freshly cooked chicken,…

The future of The Shot

The right’s agenda is no longer about manipulating the media, it’s about manipulating reality

Reporting from the depressing final days of a national shame

Reasonable compromise along the path to extinction