From today’s lockdown emergency toilet paper source, The SMAge: Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says American-led wars in the Middle East have done more harm than...
The fortnightly Essential Poll is out today, eclipsed (as it all too often is) by the Monday Newspoll, despite showing a great red warning light Coalition strategists...
There is no word more mangled in the political lexicon than ‘liberal’. It’s the only word whose definition first requires answers to two other questions: ‘what...
The Commonwealth parliament is sitting this week. The Victorian parliament is supposed to be. Except it isn’t. On the advice of the state’s Acting Chief Health...
Australians are the canaries laying at the bottom of the birdcage with all their little green and gold feathers gathering on the floor. The rest of...
Just how stupid do ABC marketers and presenters believe their audience actually is? On the evidence, the answer is very. The trend this year of self-styled...
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible then to stand on Tian’anmen Square one day and then...
Today’s Newspoll is ugly for the Coalition, throwing their primary vote and two-party preferred deficit back into late Malcolm Turnbull territory. Yet Scott Morrison’s approval has...
Queenslanders are now far too familiar with the snap lockdowns and border restrictions used by the state government to manage Covid-19. We have all experienced the...
In signals intelligence the term “look through” describes the tactic of penetrating deliberate noise and interference to reveal the real message. Practitioners of public relations black...