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Some (many) weeks in Australian politics are so repulsively stupid that resisting the urge to mentally check out before Monday lunchtime is a struggle of biblical proportions. From the moment the group chat shared the news this week’s Discourse™ would centre how “shaggable” the Prime Minister finds Kylie Minogue, his suspiciously electorally friendly aphrodisiacs (local…

Block three of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is wrapping up this week, zeroing in on online hate, social media platforms, and traditional media. The sessions have pivoted hard towards digital abuse, deepfakes, and supposed platform failures — as if the real emergency is not the continuing rivers of blood in Gaza,…

Where are the tornado warning sirens? The USA is rocketing towards becoming the authoritarian hellscape from which it has spent almost a century pretending to be the refuge. Citizens are being shot in the street. People in a book club are being sentenced to decades in prison for wrongthink. Trump is trying to push through…

Karl Stefanovic has been dumped by Channel 9 for platforming far-right figure Tommy Robinson on his podcast. The timing feels convenient. The longtime morning TV host now conjures darker forces on his independent right-wing show — and appears ready to harness the ‘cancellation’ backlash to fuel his next chapter. In the aftermath of the announcement,…

Pauline Hanson is a Sunny Boy.​​ A bright orange triangle of highly flavoured ice that delights immature palates. She is a nostalgic block that tempts people to long for their simple memories of warm (and White) Australian summers past. Those old enough to remember the iconic Sunny Boy, however, will know that once we’d sucked…

It is difficult to credibly argue that genocide was not committed on Australian shores without sounding like a deranged, budgie-smuggling, onion-eating, supremacist weirdo.  While the bulk of Australian history written across the last 250 years speaks of “discovery”, “settlement” and more recently “frontier wars”, the lived reality on this continent paints an unmistakable, unbroken picture…

Won’t somebody spare a thought for the new patron saint of the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson? She’s there to sort Australia’s trashy media out and set them on the right track because Pauline is sick and tired of the press, thank you very much, sick and tired, and tired and sick, and oh my…

Pauline Hanson addressed the National Press Club this week amid significant shifts in Australia’s political landscape. Recent polls have shown her leading or competitive as preferred Prime Minister, with One Nation surging in primary vote intentions. The veteran parliamentarian highlighted long-standing structural challenges — including housing affordability, cost-of-living pressures, and immigration levels — that major…

For a century humanity has been experiencing a counterrevolution. A counterrevolution staged by the very richest amongst us, waged against the idea that we all deserve to live in modest comfort, to work safely, and to be recognised as possessing human dignity universally, whatever our gender, skin colour, faith, class, or sexuality.  These power elites…

Let’s all cast our minds back three years to July, 2023, when the much-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Commission officially started life… Or, as it’s turned out, officially started spending hundreds of millions of dollars of your money because the NACC needs to justify its existence while it uncovers a handful of low-level public servants doing pissy…