by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 4, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Does lying still work in politics? It’s a question worth asking this week because Angus Taylor keeps doing it (or versions of it), despite his party being crushed at the polls so recently. As well, an integrity commission, the National Anti-Corruption...
by DAVID HARDAKER | May 29, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Yay, verily, the sight of Scott Morrison rocking into town this week bearing the glow of unexpected success must give at least some comfort to his Liberal Party colleagues now mired in a hell of recrimination. The lesson is that a bountiful future awaits even the most...
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 DAVID HARDAKER | May 8, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
What’s not to love about the implosion of the Liberal Party? It’s not accustomed to losing, which might explain how badly it’s handling this setback, albeit one of historic proportions. Five days on, the Saturday night massacre has exposed how thoroughly...
by Nicole Chvastek | May 7, 2025 | Media, Opinion, Politics
As Saturday’s bloodbath washes through the Liberal corridors of no power, the electoral train wreck has turned attention to other overly cocky players: the Murdoch media. From the moment the poll was called, Rupert Murdoch’s news culture warriors turned up the heat...
