The Commission has found serious and possibly systemic corruption in the community infrastructure grants. It will not be investigating. It will be developing a PowerPoint. Urban Wronski channels Clarke and Dawe.
As Featured In: Michael West Media
My piece on Apple’s planned obsolescence racket — the battery-gate throttling scandal, the Federal Court’s $9m fine over Error 53, and the twelve-day wait for a forty-minute repair — is out today with Michael West Media, one of the country’s sharpest independent outlets, reaching readers well into the millions.
Full piece here: https://michaelwest.com.au/it-just-works-until-it-doesnt-inside-apples-planned-obsolescence/
As Featured In: Michael West Media
My piece on the funeral insurance industry’s grief economy — stepped premiums, an 80% cancellation rate, and the Youpla scandal that cost Indigenous families $66m — is out today with Michael West Media, one of the country’s sharpest independent outlets, reaching readers well into the millions.
Full piece here: https://michaelwest.com.au/funeral-insurance-deadly-scheme-of-expensive-promises/
In the Land of the Blind
From Tyrie’s scaffold to Riyadh’s bone saw: the World Cup, the FIFA Peace Prize, and the audit that removed the crimes before it began. Urban Wronski looks.
Reaching Out
The Chief Wellbeing Officer of Bastards Incorporated joins Bryan Dawe to discuss six hundred and one redundancies, Wellness Wednesday, and why resilient employees rarely escalate. A tribute to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, the finest political satire this country has produced.
Mid-Winter Ball
“Were they promises?” “They were statements.” “Promises?” “Statements.” “Is there a difference?”
The Prime Minister explains housing policy, the Australian dream, and why he’ll be at the Mid-Winter Ball.
Anthony Norman Albanese crossed Parramatta Road the way other people cross a street: with the calm and conviction of someone who has rehearsed the gesture for television. He came from a housing commission island ringed by depots and the click-clack of Catholic rosary beads, black as anthracite and polished to a gloss by the unrelenting petitions of the poor but faithful. He was, as the campaign line put it, a son of a single mum. It was also an opening line with longer ambitions.
Sons of Toil, Part I: The Toolmaker’s Bequest
Keir Rodney Starmer came into the world named after the great Scottish agitator who opposed a popular war and was expelled from Parliament for it. The naming was the most radical act the Starmer family would perform for the next six decades. After that, everything moved in precisely the opposite direction.
Catch 22
Heller’s Catch-22 was the trap no rational mind could escape. Trump has built it in reverse, proving his unfitness 122 doctors at a time.
Canossa on the South Lawn
In 1077 a king knelt three days in the snow at Canossa, and it worked. Nine and a half centuries on, the pope-king turns eighty behind a cage on the South Lawn while the pretenders queue: a trillionaire, a Crown Prince, and a deputy sheriff paying by direct debit. Urban Wronski on the new Investiture Controversy.
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