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 | 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 | Dec 9, 2024 | Analysis, Politics
In a Game of Thrones version of Australian politics, major party strategists gather around grand map tables in castle towers, move their pieces here and there, test this or that manoeuvre, and consider battlegrounds and alliances. What to value and what to toss. Where...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Nov 26, 2024 | Analysis, Nuclear power
This week the quickfire Senate inquiry into a social media age ban has been hit with 15,000 submissions in a bit over 24 hours. Meanwhile, the months-long House select committee inquiry into nuclear energy is yet to hit 300. Sure most of the social media age ban...
