Well, that was fast. Just two weeks in office and the wheels are already falling off the Albanese government. Suddenly, Albo is finding out government involves a lot harder work than just sniping at everything the other guy does, and when you keep telling people you have a plan to
For a bloke that so few Australians actually voted for, Anthony Albanese sure has tickets on himself all of a sudden. Remember, twice as many Australians voted against as for Labor at the election. The party recorded its lowest primary vote in 100 years — nearly in its entire history. In
It looks as if Victoria’s own little Princeling, “Dictator Dan” Andrews really admire’s Xi Xinping’s communist regime. This is the fellow, after all, who near fell over himself to sign his personal fiefdom up to the Belt and Road Initiative, against the specific warnings of the Commonwealth
Alexander Gillespie University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. This week’s White House meeting between Jacinda Ardern and Joe Biden reflected a world undergoing rapid change. But of all the shared challenges discussed,
Surging prices of energy in Australia have gotten so bad that even the legacy media can’t ignore it any more. So, they’re falling back on another tried’n’true tactic: lying by omission and blame-shifting. When the Biden administration recently tried to blame America’s spiralling energy prices
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For someone who claims not to go looking for drama, foghorn media tart Yassmin Abdel-Magied has an odd habit of shooting off her gob in the most attention-seeking ways possible. When she inevitably gets the reaction she was trying to provoke, she goes full cry-bully and runs weeping crocodile tears
Talk about more front that Myers: despite notching up the lowest vote in a century, Anthony “Mr 30%” Albanese is claiming a “clear mandate” to “change Australia”. And he’s getting right to it, signalling an attempt to foist at least two fundamental constitutional changes on the nation. Indeed, there’
Tony Abbott is just one of four Liberal leaders to win government from opposition. He came within one seat of consigning Labor to just the second one-term government in Australia’s history (and beat them in a landslide at the following election). Clearly, then, he knows a thing or two
And, just like that, the Teals became an irrelevant sideshow. After more than a week of counting, Labor have finally clinched the magic 76 seats in the lower house that they need to govern in their own right. The Teals’ hopes of being the powerbrokers in the next parliament have
As Anthony Albanese laughably claims a “clear mandate” to govern — despite recording the party’s lowest vote in a century, with less than one-third of voters picking Labor — Peter Dutton is getting down to the tough job of rallying the defeated Liberal party. (A party which actually recorded a significantly
Joanne Nova cfact.org A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly
Australia has a new prime minister and a new opposition leader. Just who is new Liberal leader Peter Dutton? Is he the leader the Liberals need, to capitalise on the tremendous shift in political allegiances that showed in the election result? Scott Morrison only narrowly beat Peter Dutton in the
In Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein cautions against dumping a leader you don’t like, just because you don’t like them. Make sure whoever’s going to replace them isn’t even worse, he warns. Americans are getting an object lesson in Heinlein’s warning: they swapped
Twitter’s original slogan was “Tell us what you really think.” Reading some people’s tweets, you often have to ask yourself: what the hell were they thinking? Twitter has become notorious for ruining people over a single, thoughtless tweet. Usually, they’re low-level former nobodies, mindlessly thumbing out their
Ryan Anderson mercatornet.com Ryan Anderson is an essayist based in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in Quillette, Quadrant, the UK Mallard and assorted other publications in the UK and Australia. The Victorian Liberals have expelled an outspoken anti-abortion MP. Followers of Victorian politics have probably heard of Bernie
