Category: Political Comment

Will Albo Kiss the Orange Ring?

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Australia’s diplomatic strategy with Trump’s second administration rests
on a catastrophic misunderstanding: Albo thinks he’s negotiating with
Trump. He’s not. He’s trying to hand a cheque to an actor who has no idea
what his own government is actually doing. Inside the invisible power
structure that actually runs Washington.

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.