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…
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…
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…
ANTHONY ALBANESE – 2
Anthony Albanese: Prime Minister of Australia. Leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
PETER DUTTON
Peter Dutton: Leader of the Opposition. Leader of the Liberal Party. Liberal-National Coalition.
DAVID LITTLEPROUD
David Littleproud: Leader of The Nationals. The Opposition. Liberal-National Coalition.
PENNY WONG
Penny Wong: Minister for Foreign Affairs. Leader of the Government in the Senate. ALP.
RICHARD MARLES
Richard Marles: Deputy Prime Minister. Minister for Defence. Deputy Leader of the ALP.
