by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 26, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Where’s Bill Shakespeare when you have a political tragedy with high-comedic elements? The lead character, the Nationals’ much-storied backbencher Barnaby Joyce MP, once Australia’s deputy prime minister, is the political prince of New England, a northern NSW...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 22, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Far from crawling back under their rocks after a humiliating repudiation just three months ago, ultra-conservatives are doubling down on their fact-defying mission to kill Australia’s net-zero climate action. But a Senate inquiry with the power to compel witnesses is...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 20, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
It’s starting to look like the old days are well and truly gone. The bonds between Australia, the US and Israel are frayed and the decades-long love triangle is no more. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has snapped. He’ll always blame Anthony Albanese...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 15, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Last night two simultaneous events captured precisely the Australia-Gaza-Israel-US knot of relationships. As US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told the ABC’s 7.30 of the Trump administration’s “disgust” with Australia for recognising a Palestinian state, a...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 13, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
How wondrous to live in a time when no-one gives two hoots about what the Murdochs splash on their front pages or screech about on Sky. The grand exception remains the Liberal Party, yet again up for a whirl with its very own media partner. And the good news is the...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 11, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
We’re way past making excuses for one-time Labor wunderkind Mark Latham, self-styled as the ultimate outsider in Australian politics. He’s not even remotely a lovable rogue. Channelling Monty Python, he’s far beyond just being a very naughty boy. He’s not...
