by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 23, 2025 | Analysis, The world
Saturday night brought an extraordinary new Trump drama to the world. As a cast of characters goes, this lot is scary and remarkable. That they are all divinely sent in one way or another should chill us to the bone. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 20, 2025 | Media, Opinion
In another week of global horror and mayhem, something relatively small has stuck with me: the apparent fall from grace of one of the ABC’s best reporters, defence correspondent Andrew Greene. Greene has always looked to be rock solid, reliable, honest — all those...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 19, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
It’s time to check in on the weird and wacky backwater of the Australian political scene, where Barnaby Joyce fulminates and forges his prescriptions for the nation’s future. If you aren’t a viewer of Sky News or of his regular Sunrise on Seven slot, you’re...
by Nicole Chvastek | Jun 18, 2025 | Opinion, The world
In the land where the president declared his deputy Mike Pence deserved to be hanged by the neck, and supported billboards depicting Democratic rival Joe Biden hogtied in the back of a truck, it appears the dream of Trumpland justice by summary execution is coming...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jun 17, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
How fascinating it is to see Yaron Finkelstein’s name up in lights lately. The quintessential backroom Liberal operative and former Scott Morrison staffer is suddenly out and about just as the big dollars on defence and AUKUS are up for grabs and a defining moment at...
