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Since an agreement in 2023 that would see B52s stationed at Tindal airbase at Katherine in the Northern Territory, a rapidly expanding military program has been rolled out, largely behind the public eye. While the government has pursued a paltry and lethargic domestic policy agendas across an entire term, the rapid reconfiguration of Australia’s strategic…

To the ballroom of the Sydney Hyatt, (were you expecting West Wyalong?) where the Liberal Party’s 64th federal council conferencefestmeet is in full swing in June. I’m at home on a Sunday afternoon watching it back on Facebook and reading along with the comments from Brian and Raelene and Irene and Ron, who enjoys writing…

Listening to the conga-line of the obsequious pontificating on how “disrespectful” Lidia Thorpe was to our foreign King this week is as hilarious as it is nauseating. People of all political persuasions found any number of reasons to condemn Senator Thorpe, arguing because she had successfully used her platform as an MP to gain global…

Cowed courtiers on couches, or the ABC’s Insiders program, spearheaded by spear-headed David “Speersy” Speers, ran rampant genocide apologia from top to bottom last Sunday morning. Far from being outrageous, this was in fact extremely normal – pompous and dull, even – just as it would have been anywhere within the American sphere of influence,…

The ABC has finally managed to make a viral hit (that isn’t aimed at 3 year olds) in their new show The Assembly, which follows autistic journalists in training. Full of good questions, talented people and basically every modern ableist trope. Before I explain why the show is problematic and what needs to change; I…

We all know the story – you know it, Speersy knows it, everyone warm and vertical in Australia knows it. Anthony Norman Albanese was born into a single parent family and raised in public housing by a mother battling on a disability pension. Some of us could probably recite the story line-for-line by now. As…

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