Australia has signed up to another war without debate and without clarity. The costs are already visible, in rising prices, strained supply chains and a deepening entanglement that blurs the line between ally and participant.
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The Mushroom Treatment: A Government That Treats You With Contempt Cannot Be Trusted
The Albanese government gives us the mushroom treatment. Keeps us in the dark and feeds us BS. This week, while a US-Israeli war of questionable legality engulfs the Middle East and Pine Gap hums away in the desert night, Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong delivered a bravura homage to John Cage: all performance, all silence, no content whatsoever.
The CFMEU Setup: How Workers Get Mugged in an Election Year
Imagine Sarah, nurse at St Vincents, on the Number 96 tram, Melbournedusk bruising purple outside the windows. Twelve hours done. Her navyscrubs are faded and soft, worn to the shape of her, the way asoldier’s fatigues eventually become a second skin. She doesn’t looklike someone … Continue reading The CFMEU Setup: How Workers Get Mugged in an Election Year
Pepper Spray for Palestine, Tears for Tehran: Australia’s Selective Sovereignty
On a pepper‑sprayed night in Sydney, Palestinian grief is kettled while Iranian protests are feted as “democratic awakening.” This article traces how Australia’s selective compassion, media framing and think‑tank spin conscript us into the US military‑industrial script for Iran and the region.
The Boys Are Back in Town: How the Liberal Party’s Glass Cliff Claimed Its First Female Scalp
Sussan Ley lasted nine months. The glass cliff, the men’s rights vote, and the conservative faction that never wanted a woman leader — Urban Wronski connects the dots.
The Sledgehammer and the Scalpel: Why the RBA is Punishing You for Corporate Greed
As the RBA raises interest rates, the real culprit of inflation—corporate greed—goes unchecked. A searing analysis of how Australia’s economic policies punish workers while protecting profits.
How Labor Can Fight Back. Lessons from Whitlam, Keating, and the Greens
Anthony Albanese’s government is under siege—but history shows Labor can fight back. From Whitlam’s boldness to Keating’s fire and the Greens’ grassroots power, survival demands courage. Here’s how.
Who’s Got Religion? Part One: The Myth of the Religious Nation
Australia is a post-religious nation whose institutions remain structured for religious privilege. We have declining religious participation but expanding religious institutional power. We have fewer believers but stronger legal protections for discrimination. We have marginal religious practice but media that treats religious institutions as deserving special deference. Most Australians don’t have religion. But religious institutions—operating through legal privilege, institutional networks, lobbying capacity, and media deference—hold a powerful grip on Australian public policy, education, and employment law. They retain structural power precisely because they no longer need mass participation.
Ban It and They’ll Thank Us Later: Labor’s Teen Social Media Panic
While Finland invests twenty years teaching its children to think critically about media, Australia reaches for symbolic gestures and declares them progress. Within days, a new law regulating social media will take effect; one already destined to fail in its stated aim of protecting young … Continue reading Ban It and They’ll Thank Us Later: Labor’s Teen Social Media Panic
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.
Urban Wronski Writes 