Like F***ing Mozzies in a Darkroom

Remember how a couple of months ago ScoMo brought the Tongan prime minister to tears? Sopoaga used to eat sedition charges for a light breakfast so it must’ve been some proper fiery-tongued pentecostal climate denialism the Scuz was spewing around the meeting table that day. Read More …

What Could Have Been

The Labor Party has lost the unlosable election, and with it, the chance to change Australia’s course towards something approaching social democracy. The result defies every poll, pundit and focus group. The Coalition’s policy offering was astonishing in its vacuousness and cruelty, led by a Read More …

Labor’s Problem: Too Far Right of Public Opinion

We live in a world where public opinion has “only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy”, or at least that was what was found by a Princeton University study of American democracy. Based on the statistical evidence, they conclude that the US Read More …