A deadpan Clarke & Dawe dialogue exposing the absurd machinery behind Australia’s love affair with coal, the bureaucratic disappearance of koalas, and a political system that “does not evolve, it thickens.” Dark, sharp, and painfully recognisable.
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 Greens’ Genuine Wins, And The Corporate Capture Revealed
The Greens won real concessions on forests. But Labor still won’t consider whether new coal and gas should exist at all. This is how you manage environmental decline while calling it conservation.
How Australia’s “Landmark” Environmental Reform Got Captured
Five years after the Samuel Review exposed catastrophic failures in Australia’s environmental laws, Labor has delivered reforms that every major independent environmental organisation says fall dangerously short. Part One examines what Samuel actually recommended versus what we got, featuring damning assessments from the Environmental Defenders Office, Climate Council, ACF, Greenpeace, and WWF-Australia. When every credible environmental voice in Australia identifies the same fundamental flaws, that’s not ideology. That’s evidence.
PART TWO: THE SILICON LEASH
Australia’s teen social media ban was sold as child protection. In reality, it crystallises platform power over basic infrastructure. Meta writes the rules. Snapchat implements ConnectID. Parliament ratifies what’s already been decided. This isn’t regulation—it’s regulatory capture dressed up as safety. And the pattern repeats everywhere: gig work, aged care, digital advertising. We’re becoming silicon serfs to a billionaire tech oligarchy that already runs too much of the world.
THE AI WARS: A TWO-PART INDICTMENT
Thirty billion dollars a year buys server farms instead of hospitals. Urban Wronski on how AI infrastructure spending is eating Australian democracy and why the machinery can’t be stopped—unless we choose to stop it.
The Machinery? Clarke and Dawe do Richo’s state funeral
BRYAN DAWE: John, the government has announced a state funeral for Graham Richardson.
JOHN CLARKE: That is correct, Bryan. Full ceremonial arrangements, high attendance, very dignified.
BRYAN DAWE: Despite his record.
CLARKE AND DAWE: THE BURQA SOLUTION
A Satirical Political Dialogue By Urban Wronski Date: November 24, 2025 SETTING: The Australian Senate. Two figures stand observing the chaos. CLARKE: John, I’m looking at the Senate proceedings from this morning. Pauline Hanson wore a burqa into the chamber and it took 90 minutes … Continue reading CLARKE AND DAWE: THE BURQA SOLUTION
A State Funeral for Richo? What is Labor thinking?
By canonising Graham Richardson, the Labor Party has handed its enemies – the Murdoch press, the Coalition, the Advance machine – the perfect weapon to use until the election.
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
Scott Morrison waves coal in Parliament. The Minerals Council supplied it. He thought he was conducting. He was the instrument.
That moment wasn’t an aberration. It was testimony.
For decades, the mining lobby has achieved what every industry dreams of: complete bipartisan capture. Not just influence. Not just access. Ownership.
Today’s analysis maps the complete system; from dark money pipelines to media amplification, and asks whether we’re willing to build a movement powerful enough to break it.
Quiet, Piggy: How Calling a Female Reporter Livestock Became Just Another Tuesday in the Death of American Democracy
This is it—the final piece examining what “quiet, piggy” really means.
We’ve traced how outrages disappear (Part One) and mapped the nine-year war on women who speak (Part Two). Now we need to understand the broader pattern.
Because what’s happening isn’t chaos. It’s a playbook. Refined over decades. Tested globally. Deployed in America with surgical precision.
The question isn’t whether you’ll recognise the strategy. It’s whether you’ll resist before the window slams shut.
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