Week 2 Election Wrap And The Fine Art Of The Scare Campaign
Scare campaigns need to have a semblance of truth behind them to work effectively and Labor’s strategy of making pensioners think they’ll have their income managed through the cashless debit card if t...
22 Huhti 202242min
Week 1 Election Wrap And Media Behaving Badly. Very Badly.
A very hostile first media conference for Anthony Albanese in the marginal seat of Bass in Tasmania, where he couldn’t answer or gave the wrong answers to two questions from a journalist: what’s the R...
15 Huhti 202233min
Big Pre-election Special And Talking Politics With The Very Reason-able Jane Caro
We’ve never seen a government in so much trouble entering an election campaign and it’s just a question of whether Scott Morrison has the political skills to turn matters around. But before everyone s...
8 Huhti 202259min
Budget 2022 And A Wrecking Ball Government
The Budget was announced this week, and not only was it one of the most political ever, it was also one of the most expensive job applications in history for the federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, wh...
1 Huhti 202258min
SA election, Labor factions, and the beginning of the end of Morrison
The electorate in South Australia has removed a one-term Liberal Party government and installed a Labor government under Peter Malinauskas. And with a state election so close to a federal election, wi...
25 Maalis 202240min
Attacking Albanese, The Media Plunge To A New Low, And We Take A Look At The Fusion Party
It was Anthony Albanese’s turn to appear on 60 Minutes, but not as much enthusiasm as they displayed for Scott Morrison, even though more people tuned in to watch Albanese, compared to Morrison’s epis...
18 Maalis 202257min
The On-Water Matters Sweeping Out The Morrison Government To Oblivion: A Big Week In Politics
Dedicated to the memory of Senator Kimberley Kitching.The floods in northern NSW and Queensland are causing major political headaches for the Morrison government and, as the floodwaters flow back into...
11 Maalis 202249min
Ukraine, Climate Change Floods And A Look At The Australian Progressives
The war in Russian invasion in Ukraine is escalating, and it’s difficult to know how this will end. But Vladimir Putin has already lost, irrespective of the outcome: a crashing Russian economy, the Ro...
4 Maalis 202255min
