How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests since 1923, made sure we never asked why.
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The Government That Isn’t: Labor’s Masterclass in Looking Busy
They gave him 94 seats and a mandate like no other. But barely five months after his landslide re-election, Anthony Albanese’s government is already disappointing voters. From FOI requests plunging to just 25% approval, to $1 million in climate travel in two months, to a housing policy that makes homes less affordable—the second-term complacency is real. As independent MPs note: “We couldn’t go any lower than Morrison, but we have.”
The Tyranny of Delusion: How Australia Keeps Fighting Yesterday’s Wars
AUKUS is the culmination of our imperial hangover. It combines obsolete technology in an age of drones with geography that defeats its purpose, industrial bottlenecks that guarantee delay, and a strategic rationale contradicted by its authors. Political cowardice is dressed as resolve. We are spending a generation’s wealth on submarines we probably will not get, cannot crew, cannot fuel, to fight wars Washington has already priced out of its plans.
The AUKUS Delusion: Buying Yesterday’s Technology for Tomorrow’s War That Won’t Happen
Australia has a tragic genius for repeating its strategic mistakes. Part 2 of Urban Wronski’s AUKUS series traces how bipartisan cowardice; from Morrison’s photo-ops to Albanese’s deference; turned dependence into doctrine and loyalty into lunacy.
Ask Not What You Can Do for One Nation—But What Has One Nation Ever Done for Anybody?
If Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, Pauline Hanson has the face that launched a thousand chips. But the real story isn’t about Hanson at all—it’s about Long John Howard, who stole her racism in the 1990s, laundered it through the language of sovereignty and security, and left both major parties trapped in a political theatre he built thirty years ago.
One Nation polls at 14% between elections but collapsed to 6.4% in May—the evergreen boost that never makes it to the ballot box. Yet even with Anthony Albanese’s historic landslide, Labor still governs within Howard’s frame, still talks tough on “border security,” still uses his language. The government changes. The script endures.
From Barnaby Joyce playing pantaloon to Hanson serving up warmed-over resentment with extra chicken salt, this is how we all ended up living in Howard’s Australia.
Red Earth, Red Meat and Red Herrings: How Australia got played in Washington
The $8.5 billion U.S.–Australia critical minerals deal was marketed as strategic genius. What we got was dinner theatre, a roasted ambassador and another generation locked into extractive dependency. When the only thing “free” about free trade is how costly it gets, perhaps it’s time to read the fine print.
AFP Pull a Swiftie as Albo and Scomo’s Personal Data Exposed Online
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.
Fool’s Gold: Why Australia’s $1 Billion Bribe to Trump Is Diplomatic Malpractice
“Australia is offering Trump $1 billion in AUKUS funding to secure a defence deal. But Trump has a notorious track record of abandoning agreements—and it could backfire spectacularly.”
Thelma & Louise in Khaki: Abbott, Hastie, and the Liberal Party’s Joyride to Oblivion
Tony Abbott didn’t just endorse Andrew Hastie — he sculpted him from the clay of Cold War nostalgia and culture war fury. Now, as the Liberal Party flirts with leadership disaster, Hastie emerges not as a saviour, but as a symptom of the party’s descent into uniformed theatre and ideological cosplay.
A Credibility Gap in Search of a Conspiracy
Australia’s Coalition postures as tough on national security, but their record tells another story: Iran scare campaigns, hypocrisy on Tehran trade, and the trillion-dollar AUKUS blunder.
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