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Anthony Albanese has tied his fate to fossil fuel majors. In a speech delivered to the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia in Perth yesterday, he declared: “I can confirm that the Budget will not undermine existing contracts on gas exports.” He tied this refusal to tax fossil fuel’s windfall profits to Gallipoli,…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nation’s leader being crucified in an ongoing sex scandal must be in want of a good, drawn-out war. It is also a truth universally acknowledged, that an Australian Prime Minister with an historic timidity and inability to make a decision on his own, must be in want…

The case for nationalising early childhood education and care is not just economically sensible, it’s a moral imperative. Let me explain why. The most common adult perpetrator of child sexual abuse is a caregiver known to the victim.  Last month, former Sydney private school sports coach Hugh Melchior was sentenced to another year on bail…

In Washington DC, a demented old pedophile threatens to nuke an entire civilization by nightfall. He mocks the Muslim god and makes others question the existence of their own. The odds he drafted at least some of his declaration of atomic Ragnarok from the shitter is not zero. My tea tastes like it’s been spiked…

Located in the heart of Surfers Paradise, Queensland, is a small suburb called the Isle of Capri. It consists of luxury waterfront properties with price tags that would make you wince like that time Idris Elba ate a hot wing. There’s one house in particular that’s up for auction in a few weeks. 6 bedrooms,…

Allow me a confession and a brief moment of weakness: summoning the will to wade back into the darkness is hard at times. There are only so many horrors, so many injustices and mutilations of a dead, better world that any thinking, feeling person can handle. Even if that dead world was more illusion than…

The Claremont Institute is simultaneously one of the most ridiculous and dangerous institutions in the US. It’s the heart of the upper-class manosphere and a “racist fever swamp”. This week, I have been revelling in journalist Katherine Stewart’s expert skewering of the pretensions of the hysterics who have made that Atlas Network junktank into a…

If you’ve had the misfortune of reading the Murdoch press or the Australian Financial Review at all in the past five years, you would know they have been nonstop writing about a group of privileged elites using public money to fund their own lavish lifestyle with a blatant disregard for peasant taxpayers. Weirdly, they’re not…

Lack of widespread accountability has always protected horrible men. This layer of protection has lasted so long and grown so solid within our society that the men who abuse it have also become emboldened by it. It has shaped the world we live in. Political systems, education, money, government, entertainment, sport and the black engine…

In The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald was scathing about the dismal faux-intellectual posturing of the very rich around the “decline of the West”. He poked fun at their imperative to protect the “Nordic race” against the immigration that would debase it. These fever dreams of civilisational destruction, fostered by historian Edward Gibbon and fascist…