The Martini Shot
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Jo Dyer
Come to your census: data, Dutton and ducking for cover
It was a quirk of fate that the latest research from our electoral Stadler and Waldorf that showed a full 24% of Australians surveyed couldn’t name a single thing the Government had done that positively impacted their lives landed in the same week a Romanesque list of its achievements was circulated online by the cohort…
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Jo Dyer
The Tale of a Supportive Boss
There’s a certain kind of operative ensnared deep within the political depths who sees everything through a dark partisan prism. Any criticism levelled against them is unjustified hostility from those with malign intentions who are laser-focussed on inflicting the maximum political damage on them, their allies and all for which they stand. In this paranoid…
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Jo Dyer
The Martini Shot: The Last Take on the News that Matters
Breaking down Garma Festival, The Olympics, Linda Reynolds’ defamation suit and more…
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Jo Dyer
How Joe Biden can save the world
Perhaps it’s our 24-hour media cycle but apart from fake bandages adorning ears at the Republican National Convention, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump seems already to be fading as a political story, replaced by the apotheosis of the reinvention of J.D. Vance and the latest round of “Where’s Melania?” Not entirely, of course. The…
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Jo Dyer
The catastrophic state of the United States
Instant Erudition with Jo Dyer Instant Erudition is the Shot’s new fortnightly column: a quick read from Jo Dyer to whet your whistle while you wait for our next feature article With Julian Assange now safely back on Australian soil, let us acknowledge that the fact he was sequestered inside for 4387 days, including 1901…