by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 12, 2025 | Analysis, The world
What’s with the outrage over the Albanese government’s decision to break with the US and recognise a Palestinian state? The gesture is close to meaningless given the one-in-a-million chance of there ever being a two-state solution, for the many reasons The Politics...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 7, 2025 | Analysis, The world
This week Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the occupied West Bank — not to see conditions on the ground for Palestinians but to spend time at an Israeli settlement. He became the highest-ranking US official to do so. Settlements are illegal under...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 28, 2025 | Analysis, Politics
Surely about now Sussan Ley must have a tinge of regret about taking on the job of opposition leader, notwithstanding the circa-$440,000 pay packet that also comes with a shot at ignominy. The immediate reason is that Ley, a one-time co-chair of the Parliamentary...
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 MURRAY HOGARTH | May 22, 2025 | Analysis, Politics
This is a story about where political hubris goes to die, and also the old truism that all politics is local. We reveal for the first time how Peter Dutton began haemorrhaging voter support on his home ground, in the electorate of Dickson, over the Christmas-New Year...
by Nicole Chvastek | Apr 8, 2025 | Analysis, Media, Politics
If you’ve ever worked for the ABC you’d be forgiven for feeling the cold, clammy hand of a Liberal-National government coming back to have another crack at you. Last Wednesday, Peter Dutton told the ABC and Sydney’s 2GB that he would “reward excellence”...
