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Whoever wins, we lose
A world drowning in misinformation, depression, existential isolation, conspiracy cults, wellness circuses, creeping fascism, resurgent white supremacy, and the degradation
The first glimpses of Albo’s arrogance
Australians talk about the property market. Incessantly. So much so it is a cliché. If you’re under 40, the housing crisis has been part of your BBQ conversation a fair bit longer than this newly minted government has existed
The toilet police are here and they want you to know they are very serious
If your whole life is devoted to policing toilets, you’d spend a lot of time trying to convince everyone that toilets need police, and it’s an important and serious thing to do, rather than something obsessive and creepy and weird
The disappointing failure of the non-existent ‘Yes’ campaign
On the 30th of August 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held a press conference with Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda
Ben Roberts-Smith – the beautiful things he’s seen
On the same day Afghan farmer Ali Jan was smashed off a rocky cliff by Ben Roberts-Smith with such force
Profiteering without conscience
The shock expressed at the amorality of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ brazen misuse of confidential Government information is understandable and overdue. Not just
It’s their ABC
The ABC has lost its way. On the most recent Insiders program on our ABC, Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather is
“The poison in Australia’s bloodstream”
I carry with me the fuzzy cognitive dissonance of a white man educated in a settler colony, an old land
If this is the best we can hope for, why do we even bother?
Just one new coal mine, what’s the big deal
Labor pains
It’s been a rocky old quarter for Labor’s spinmeisters, what with Prime Minister Albanese’s footsies with Kyle-who-needs-sensitivity-training, all while spending