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AUKUS is falling apart, just as the world slips further into chaos under Trump’s America.  Weeks after being told to lift our defence budget into another arbitrary measure of GDP by morning-drinking US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Richard Marles was fumbling through his words in the usual manner, trying to defend AUKUS now the Trump…

“It’s not so much staying alive, it’s staying human that’s important. What counts is that we don’t betray each other” – George Orwell It is not difficult to understand the darkness swallowing Gaza.  Like comfortable, educated, middle class Germans living in leafy Berlin suburbs with train stations that daily sent thousands of Jews to death…

Saturday’s Labor victory was its biggest win since the Chifley era, with a lower primary vote (34.7%) than Bill Shorten (34.73%) in his 2016 loss to Malcolm Turnbull. It was a historical victory, with 8-15 seats gained for the ALP, while the Coalition is looking to have lost at least 19, including the Opposition Leader…

By the time you read this, the 2025 federal election campaign will mercifully have less than 24 hours left on the clock but I’m still happy to declare it the dumbest campaign in living memory. A campaign of 5 weeks that seemed like 5 years, its main achievement has been showing Australians what a desperate…

There’s an Australian election tomorrow, Joe Exotic from Tiger King is now tangentially involved, and I just cannot take any of this shit seriously anymore.  I understand that’s an unusual position for an editor of a political media outlet to take, but it’s 2025, get with the program. If I treated this circus with reverence,…

“I’m bringing Columbus Day back”, Donald Trump gleefully announced on Truth Social, reinforcing the ancient tradition (that began in 1971) of the American nation officially celebrating one of history’s most successful genocidaires. The depopulation of the Caribbean islands triggered by Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas, a model closely followed throughout the continent, translated easily to…

When you lose the fan club at The Australian, a Coalition leader is in serious trouble. After Andrew Hastie was let out of witness protection last week to stand next to Peter Dutton for the Coalition’s Defence Policy announcement – which, like most of the Coalition’s policy announcements was more a promise to chuck money…

Just a few quaint pandemic-y years ago, Scott Morrison, Prime Minister, secret Health Minister, secret Finance Minister, secret Industry, Science, Energy and Resources Minister, and secret Home Affairs and Treasury Minister, possessed the Professor-X-like ability to put my mind into a trance. To telekinetically move my arm to the tv remote, to click off, and,…

Universities have been with us for many centuries, with their roots deep in the tradition of philosophical enquiry as a key component of what it means to be human. The organising principle is simple: the advancement of civilisation requires a safe space for higher learning. All very high-falutin’, but there isn’t a free society where…

Normally the idea of locking a bunch of social media creators in a room without access to the internet would be the media’s wet-dream, yet when it happened recently it was so controversial that it nearly overshadowed the boringness of the 2025 federal budget. As a Gen Z person, my reaction to hearing that so-called…