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A well respected sports journalist has been sacked from his position at SEN for retweeting factual posts about Israel’s assault in Gaza. In a land where sport is a religion, Peter Lalor is regarded as one of the best cricket commentators in the country, standing on his own as one of the old guard, highly…

For those of you not in mining inner circles (and I assume that means anyone outside the Liberal and National parties) some time back in 2013, Peter Dutton’s legally registered owner Gina Rinehart founded – wait for it – National Mining And Related Industries Day. Never heard of it? Don’t worry, I’d never heard of…

Don’t expect Tolstoy from me today, this is a thinly veiled ad for a T-shirt disguised as a column, but I will try.  Over the weekend, Grace Tame, former Australian of the Year and close friend of The Shot, wore our Fuck Murdoch T-shirt, I shit you not, to meet the Prime Minister. I forget…

There is a small but significant difference between being an edgelord dickweed and a Nazi. They are different things. That having been said, it is extremely possible to be both at the same time. And a Bond villain.  This week, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, busted out two casual Sieg Heils on Donald Trump’s…

Rather than publishing five separate articles, which, at this point in the year, I cannot be fucked doing – and you probably can’t be fucked reading – we have collaborated on the one piece. Before sailing off into a turkey and pudding fuelled oblivion, here are The Shot’s writers recounting their personal 2024s.  Jo DyerWhilst…

There’s been a lot of talk about my generation of men recently as many are becoming radicalised, and sadly, not just against healthcare CEOs. As someone who had friends almost fall down the right-wing nutjob pipeline, and lost friends who did, I want to provide a perspective to this conversation that I am scared and…

It was incredibly empowering to be part of a joyous, colourful crowd of climate defenders in kayaks on Newcastle harbour that turned a coal ship around. When you’re on the water nearby, the scale of these ships is almost too much for the mind to encompass. Half the world is moving in front of you.…

There’s always been a healthy level of stupid in Australian politics, but let’s face facts: the collective intelligence of the current parliament makes a group shout at Barnaby’s favourite pub look like a Mensa meeting.  To be fair, the stupid didn’t start in May 2022 with the election of Ralph Babet, although certainly Pauline Hanson…

At the risk of pissing everyone off, both the ALP and the Coalition cannot be trusted to govern humanely, intelligently, honestly and competently in their own right. Those days are long past. Parliamentary politics as it stands cannot save us from ourselves. We are drowning in relevant examples. In the last sitting week before parliament…

After 13 months of live-streamed, sadistic slaughter inside the open-air concentration camp that once was Gaza, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.  The ICC cited “crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20…