A senior keeper of the words explains why territories are disputed, why Palestine is a special-occasion word and why, in the last three years, almost 300 dead journalists were simply found.
The Temu Tunnel
A $2 billion project on paper. Then some poor sod makes the mistake of trying to build it.
Who Put Pauline Hanson in such a Good Paddock?
Nobody planted Pauline Hanson. The miners wrote her song a decade before she sang it. Thirty years on, they have bought her a plane.
One Nation, Three Shareholders
The fraud charge against One Nation’s founders was quashed. The real offence was perfectly legal: a party built so that the people who paid for it would never own it.
Nobody Planted Pauline
The ballot paper that put Pauline Hanson in Parliament was an accident. What grew around her was not.
Going Down: Australia’s Dutch Auction of Its Humanity
Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are calling the migrant intake down like lots on a falling clock. Nobody at the podium will ask what we owe the people on the block.
Putting the boot into a new leader: the monstering of David Shoebridge
Four days as Greens leader: choked up on 7.30, tagged an ecopopulist, accused of prejudice, charged with snobbery. That’s not a gaffe cycle. It’s a method.
Eighty to One: The Greens, the Press Gallery and the Wrong Race
The press gallery has already called the Greens a roughie. In 1948 a camera at Flemington had something to say about that.
Australia’s West Bank Abdication: The Comfort of Complicity
Twelve nations put a price on Israel’s illegal settlements. Canberra sat at the table for months, then remembered it had a Security Council seat to win.
The Appropriate Time
Twelve countries signed a statement on trade with Israeli settlements. Australia was very much part of the process. The early part.
