The explosive Robodebt inquiry and reinventing capitalism
It’s hard to believe how bad and illegal Robodebt was, but when you have the most incompetent government ever, anything’s possible.There was a massive amount of explosive evidence to come out from the...
3 Feb 202339min
The misogyny of News Corp and the racism of the Right
The Australian media usually stays away from New Zealand politics but News Corporation had a field day when Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation, suggesting all of her instincts were bad, she shut...
27 Jan 202339min
A Nazi in the ranks and the end of Pell
Dominic Perrottet claims that he was naïve and didn’t really understand the consequences of his actions of wearing a Nazi costume to his 21st birthday party but, to put this in context, Perrottet is 4...
20 Jan 202335min
The Voice To Parliament and No Future for the Liberal Party
It’s still quite early in the year but already, there’s a big focus on The Voice To Parliament – the Prime Minister has started mapping the timeline for when the referendum might take place – and it c...
13 Jan 202339min
The year in review: Morrison the dangerous Prime Minister
For most of this year, it looked like Scott Morrison and the Liberal–National coaltion was going to lose the election, but because the opinion polls got it so wrong in 2019, very few people were prepa...
23 Dec 202220min
The year in review: the 2022 election
It was a big year in politics and the biggest event was the federal election in May. It wasn't clear who was going to win the election, even though opinion polls were suggesting Labor was going to win...
16 Dec 202231min
Labor election review, gormless Robodebt, AFP interferes in Lehrmann case, and final 2022 opinion polls
The Labor review of the 2022 election has been released, and it’s a much better read than the reviews from the previous three elections which were all lost by the Labor Party. Of course, Labor did win...
9 Dec 202243min
The massive media fail, Morrison censured and Labor ends the year on a high
The Victoria election was held last weekend and, contrary to what everyone in the media wanted and predicted, it was another crushing defeat for the Liberal Party. It wasn't even close. For the past t...
2 Dec 202241min
