Author: urbanwronski

Urban Wronski is an Australian free-lance writer whose work appears regularly in The Independent Australia, The Tasmanian Times and also in The Australian Independent Media Network. He has also been published in Guardian Australia. An acute observer and analyst Urban continues to advocate for a just, tolerant and compassionate society.

AFP Pull a Swiftie as Albo and Scomo’s Personal Data Exposed Online

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It had been mere minutes since the PM’s personal phone number; along with those of Opposition leaders, former PMs, and assorted bigwigs whose privacy was apparently as robust as a house built entirely from browser cookies, got published on a US-based website. An artificial intelligence scraper did the heavy lifting, wielding all the ethical scruples of a Murdoch News of the World phone-tapper.

The Pressure Cooker Has Exploded: Gaza, Genocide, and the Great Western Amnesia

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October 7 did not fall from the sky like a biblical plague. It was not spontaneous combustion. It was the predictable detonation of a pressure cooker sealed shut by decades of occupation, humiliation, and the kind of slow-motion strangulation that would make Kafka blush. Yet here we are; watching Western leaders clutch their pearls while the Israeli war machine turns Gaza into a graveyard, all under the banner of “self-defence”.

The Sports Club That Tried to Disappear the Scandal

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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.