by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 30, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
He verges on fictional James Bond good looks. Wealthy landed gentry upbringing. Exclusive private school boy. Rhodes scholar academic. Top management consultant, with McKinsey on his business bio. Accomplished barrister wife, with whom he shares four children....
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 27, 2025 | Opinion, Politics, Review
With all that’s happening in politics in Australia and globally, it seems a strange time to resurrect the memory of one of our most bizarre and disruptive leaders. Especially one who lost power nearly four decades ago, and who died two decades ago, in 2005. Rest in...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 26, 2025 | Opinion, The world
It’s not every day the head of NATO calls a US president “daddy”, especially a “daddy” like Donald Trump. But here we are: a transatlantic love story like no other. It began with a gushing private message two days ago, man to man, from Mark...
by Nicole Chvastek | Jun 25, 2025 | Opinion, The world
And so it begins. As US President Donald Trump delivered his bunker-busting message to Iran, so too began a blizzard of claim and counterclaim staking out the moral high ground. What makes this a dangerous moment in the public relations fight is the rule that’s...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 24, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Seizing the moment is a pretty good tactic in warfare and politics. Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, the opposition’s most talked-about leadership contender-in-waiting, is proficient in both. The former SAS commando is on a media mission. His moment has been provided by...
