So, the Australian Parliament Sports Club has vanished from the register. Presto. Problem solved. But this isn’t a solution; it’s a sleight of hand that confirms every cynical assumption about how power operates in this town. The sequence of events is a masterclass in the capital’s unique brand of corruption; not the blatant brown-paper-bag, but the genteel, clubby, embedded kind that wears cleats and drinks pints after play.
When Senator David Pocock questioned why the Parliamentary Sports Club was funded by gambling lobbyists, he was expelled. The former Wallabies captain’s crime? Noticing that a “purely social” club is registered as a lobbying organisation, sponsored by Responsible Wagering Australia, and presided over by the Prime Minister.
The Nobel Committee’s 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado reveals not moral clarity but the creeping Trumpification of virtue; another act in the long theatre of Western self-absolution.The enshittification of the Nobel Peace Price- Prof Greg Grandin, Yale University.
The genius of modern repression is that it doesn’t require jackboots or midnight knocks. It requires bureaucracy. Forms. Watchlists. De-banking. IRS audits. Loss of tax-exempt status. It’s not a gulag; it’s a compliance nightmare. You’re not disappeared; you’re just financially ruined and socially destroyed. Much more civilised.
Australia’s $368 billion AUKUS pact is a strategic delusion, a modern “Waiting for Godot” where we await nuclear submarines we can’t crew, built on infrastructure we don’t have, to counter threats with technology that’s already obsolete. This op-ed argues it’s time to abandon the performance.
How Trump and Hegseth are using manufactured history and dominionist theology to transform the U.S. military into a sectarian warband. The neglected story.
Trump’s second term is powered by Project 2025, militarized crackdowns, oligarch-backed financing, and billionaire profiteers. This satirical exposé reveals how Trump’s Deepfake Presidency turns out the lights on truth, democracy, and accountability.
Tony Abbott didn’t just endorse Andrew Hastie — he sculpted him from the clay of Cold War nostalgia and culture war fury. Now, as the Liberal Party flirts with leadership disaster, Hastie emerges not as a saviour, but as a symptom of the party’s descent into uniformed theatre and ideological cosplay.
An unflinching examination of how Murdoch’s media empire evolved into a cathedral of manufactured outrage, now weaponized by tech oligarchs and autocrats—and why the resistance that matters happens at the edges.
A searing indictment of Trump’s ruleless sabotage and the global drift toward normalizing tyranny. This piece calls for clarity, resistance, and the courage to name misrule for what it is—before the spectacle becomes the system.
Your source for what's trending in the news!
davidtylerpoet
Exclusives | Investigations | News
Sometimes Uncomfortable Reading but…
A topnotch WordPress.com site
An exploration of the hazardous objects and features found in the Victorian home
Psychology & Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
Musings from home and hearth
Adding my voice to Australian Politics
New, fearless, fresh and original Australian political comment, satire and more.
Political Enthusiasts, Proud ALP & PM Julia Gillard supporters! Dislike media bias. Hate racism, injustice and lies.
Real News - New News - Independent News
This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees
The AIMN is an online platform that provides a space for citizen and public interest journalists to engage in and contribute to independent media, focusing on politics, democracy, environment, and identity.
A topnotch WordPress.com site
SIT DOWN, HAVE A DRINK, RELAX.
Just another WordPress.com site
Urban Wronski Writes 