In its first few weeks of government Albanese’s Labor have managed to comprehensively bollix nearly everything. Nearly. There’s been one glaring and pleasingly surprising exception: so far – so far – Labor have passed their first China test somewhat impressively. The surprise is even bigger, given that Albanese appointed notorious
Who’d want to be a fly on the wall when Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern get together? Not me, that’s for sure. It’d be like listening to Monty Python’s “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch as re-done by two middle-aged socialists. “When I were a girl, I ‘ad to
Jacinda Ardern has raised the 501 issue with the new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Unsurprisingly and rather predictably, Albo has given Ardern the short shrift and told the functioning idiot that masquerades as our Prime Minister that Australia will keep on taking out the trash: Australia will continue with
Well, I’m glad our illustrious PM thinks it’s all a bit of a giggle. When he’s not scurrying overseas to pose for selfies in batik shirts while dodging questions about the cost of living, supply chain, and energy crises engulfing Australia, Anthony Albanese is going on breakfast
Even after getting brutally mugged by reality in his first fortnight of government, Anthony Albanese is still trying to act like an opposition leader when it suits him. Albanese’s entire campaign strategy was to play, not just a small target, but an invisible man. That included simply turning on
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
