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 MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 14, 2025 | Business, Opinion
When the stock market-listed mining company chaired by one of Australia’s most politically outspoken coal barons gets put into financial administration, you know there’s trouble in the world of the black stuff. That’s exactly what’s happened with Bowen Coking Coal...
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 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...
