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. The Urban Wronski voice is one of the most distinctive in Australian political writing: sardonic, erudite, morally engaged but never preachy, and animated by a barely suppressed outrage that is kept in check — and made far more effective — by wit, irony and a very precise control of tone. The persona is that of a man who has seen through the machinery of power and chooses to describe it with forensic clarity rather than mere fury. The anger is always there, but it does the work of fuel rather than exhaust.

Josh and Scotty’s excellent adventure can have no happy ending.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr’s snap lockdown forces PM fan-boy, Josh Frydenberg to doss-down at The Lodge, in ScoMo ‘n Frydo’s Canberra Sleepover, a lightweight sitcom pilot about mateship, relatability and who does the washing-up. In Episode One –An Odd Coupling – scripted by professionally … Continue reading Josh and Scotty’s excellent adventure can have no happy ending.

Typhoid Mary, Gladys, no longer PM’s poster girl, Gladys, gets the Delta blues.

There’s no roadmap out, wails NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, Typhoid Mary of our Delta blues, parroting Scott Morrison, the PM for NSW, who savages his gold-standard, open for business poster-girl; turns on her to save his own hide.  Hand-ball Morrison gets JJ Frewen to fire … Continue reading Typhoid Mary, Gladys, no longer PM’s poster girl, Gladys, gets the Delta blues.