Election 2026: I Feel Your Pain
Australians have been shafted plenty, at the last few elections.
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If You Interview Chlöe
The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
The PREFU and Strategic Voting Message
Without an overhang, we are still facing a hung-parliament but, with the overhang, the centre-right has a pathway to hold on to power so perhaps the strategic voting message is getting through.
Exclusive Excerpts From Nicky Hager’s Dirty Work
Mr Hager is known to be working on a follow up to both Dirty Politics and Dirty Work, entitled Dirty Jokes. A compendium of jokes scrawled on the parliamentary bathroom walls. The mothers of several well-known MPs are said to figure prominently.
The Shape of Humans to Come
The future human: giant heads, soft bodies and the evolutionary guessing game.
The Left’s Frail Prophet
“Dirty Work”, Nicky Hager’s latest low-voltage thunderbolt, fails to impress.
Change of Government Coming to Victoria?
Whichever party wins the state election, I don’t see a solution to the state’s enormous debt burden in the short term.
The Unbearable Agency Of Sydney Sweeney
Freedom means it should be entirely up to Sweeney if she chooses to make money from her old chains. But that’s not supposed to happen, according to the feminists.
Albo No-Mates Gets Shirtfronted by Lefty Journo
If he’s lost the ABC, he’s lost the last people who still pretended he was competent.
The Options Are Shrinking
What’s it going to be? A tilt towards extremism or a self-sacrificial Grand Coalition?
Dragging New Zealand Left
New Zealand First and National are not right-wing parties. Their willingness to engage in economic interventionism and steal each other’s policies places them both firmly left-of-centre.
Slogans, Hope and the Bad Ads
Are all promising things that will only come back to hurt them later. None of them has an emotional appeal that both creates and soothes anxiety.
Glass Jaws and Political Blunders
Attacking Pauline Hanson is a very dumb thing to do.
One Picture
There’s a big difference between mediocre electoral conjuring and genuine political magic.