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 | Jul 17, 2025 | Opinion, Politics, The world
What if I tell you there’s a country with a male prime minister from the left, leading an incumbent centre-left government, where rentals and housing are critical issues, where the climate crisis, extreme heatwaves and wildfires and a renewables-led energy transition...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 10, 2025 | Environment, Opinion
The marvellous thing about US President Donald Trump’s administration is that whatever rock you look under, you find another whack job. One is Laura Loomer, the wild conspiracy theorist who should be in sideshow alley but instead is a de facto national security...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 2, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
The environment movement’s worst-case scenario was a Peter Dutton-led Coalition government laying waste to climate and clean energy policies and environmental protection. It didn’t happen. But now an epic battle with the enviro-lite Albanese Labor government has...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Apr 24, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Climate change haunts this cost-of-living and Trump-madness election like a ghost on the policy staircase. Even a holy ghost … It takes a special kind of ultra-conservative genius to turn the death of the Pope in Rome into an Australian election attack on Anthony...
