by MURRAY HOGARTH | May 15, 2025 | Nuclear power, Opinion, Politics
In good news for Australia’s democracy, it turns out that money really can’t buy everything, and the Americanisation of our politics is not a one-way street. Mega-rich people and powerful industry lobbies trying to buy votes and influence results to capture...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | May 9, 2025 | Nuclear power, Opinion, Politics
Think of the Liberal Party’s election implosion as a major nuclear accident — a Chernobyl of political arrogance and incompetence; a Fukushima of policy misdirection and fantasising; a Three Mile Island of strategic self-delusion and stupidity. Nuclear accidents have...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | May 6, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
A bit over 18 months ago, Angus Taylor — an aspiring leader of the opposition — was tucking himself into bed at the posh InterContinental Hotel in London. We can assume his jetlag wasn’t too bad, and his hip pocket was okay too, because he’d enjoyed a freebie business...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Feb 26, 2025 | Analysis, Politics
What keeps first-term Opposition Leader Peter Dutton awake at night on the eve of an election which opinion polls suggest he could win? One thing is the ever-present likelihood of ultra-conservatives on his Liberal-National Coalition team slipping the party discipline...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Feb 24, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Take the Hume Highway from Sydney towards Canberra and exit at the Picton Road, heading to Wollongong. After about 2km, at the next traffic lights, turn right into Greenway Parade and the ambitiously named Wilton Greens, a new “greenfields” suburb in the making on the...
