Better not upset the Pope, Albo!
PRE-ELECTION The 2025 election is looming, and you have not delivered on key environmental promises from the last election. That’s right. In fact, we have gone backwards on climate. Labor…
Messrs Albanese & Dutton – robot impersonators
At the conclusion of the recent election campaign, while gnashing my teeth, I mused … Why must we tolerate such underwhelming mediocrity? Australia deserves better than this. This campaign was…
Peter Dutton in polling doldrums
The boy stood on the burning deckHis name was Peter Dutton Twas in a sea of Liberal blueThat things were going quite askewTo be PM was his desireNot to be…
Plibersek feels the heat on Greens deal
Original post 3 December 2024Updated 13 April 2025 Prasinophobia is an intense and irrational fear of the colour green. One notable sufferer of this phobia is Anthony Albanese, whose symptoms…
In the national interest
Peter Dutton must have felt smugly euphoric as 2024 drew to a close. After all, the Liberal leader had completed another successful year of his well-publicised racial vilification of minority…
… not very much at all really. In fact, even less
Updated version He is the most powerful person in Australia. He is the symbolic ‘average viewer’ who influences television news content, which in turn affects polling, which in turn drives…
Dutton’s nuclear bombshell
Peter Dutton calls a media briefing. No video or audio allowed – only written notes: I am here to declare that my much-touted nuclear energy policy is a contrived load…
48.8% is the statistic for corrupt politicians
In a recent Australian National University (ANU) study into democracy in Australia, 48.8% of respondents agreed that politicians are corrupt. Certain unwise parliamentarians are attempting to debunk the figure, and…
Julia Gillard – trial by gender. Verdict – exile!
FLASHBACK THIS CARTOON, DRAWN AT THE END OF JULIA GILLARD’S TENURE AS PRIME MINISTER, WAS ON DISPLAY IN THE MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY AT THE OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN CANBERRA.THE…