Politics and current affairs
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Undone by Hubris
You have to feel sorry for Nemesis, the Greek god of vengeance. Her mythology is rather more grand – certainly it is more sweeping – than the banal, long-running and still ongoing factional split in the Australian Liberal Party. Though Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull might choose to demur. Hubris is like that, and both Continue reading
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When Mr Keating Came to Town
Just a quick note, on current matters. Paul Keating will be feeling pleased with himself. He’s managed to distress a number of luvvies, media and otherwise, with his remarks at the National Press Club in Canberra on Tuesday. He even got a reprimand from the prime minister for daring to say that diplomacy was about Continue reading
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The Mad World of Manipulative Mendacity
How The Australian’s breaking news website portrayed China’s response on Mar. 14. The boys are about with their tin drums again. They’re dressing in uniform and singing marching songs. The Australian’s breaking news service popped up this colourful fear-maker yesterday asserting that the Chinese have said we’re a target. They haven’t, and won’t, short of Continue reading
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Getting Down to Business
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Tuesday, June 7, 2022 That’s the thing about writing fortnightly political and current affairs commentaries: My friend and long-ago colleague Dennis Atkins, a veteran of the Queensland and national political media field, wrote exactly what I had planned to write for this column, in the May 31 edition of the online newspaper InQueensland. Continue reading
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Are We There Yet? No? Shame.
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Sunday, May 8, 2022 This isn’t the midpoint of the 2022 federal election campaign. It just feels that way, or possibly that we have yet to really start. In fact, we’re over the hump. Did anyone notice? Is anyone counting? There is a fortnight to go, a full 14 days of glee club Continue reading
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