Australia’s social media ban for under-16s hands enforcement to the platforms that profit from teen attention. That’s not policy, that’s Monty Python with cabinet approval.
The Precariat Grows: Labor’s Toothless Reforms Can’t Stop the Casualisation Juggernaut
By 2021, a bare 50.5% of Australian jobs qualified as permanent full-time positions with leave entitlements, meaning half of all employed Australians now face one or more dimensions of insecurity in their work says The Australian Council of Trade Unions. This isn’t some unfortunate accident of market forces. It’s the deliberate result of a business model, embraced across both private and public sectors, that systematically shifts the risks of employment from employer to employee while minimising labour costs at the expense of job quality
The Hypocrisy of Hanson: Howard’s Political Love Child
Pauline Hanson wags parliament for Mar-a-Lago while One Nation surges to 15%. From Tampa to Family Court, how Howard’s bastard child betrays her voters.
Saturday long read: the Coalition’s Net Zero position is not a policy, it is a scented screensaver.
This piece examines how Net Zero has become a scented screensaver: soothing sounds, calming visuals, ambient reassurance for donors. And how the fossil rentier class continues to extract while the political class performs a kind of serenity ritual in public.
Title: “The Carbon Question Time” – A Liberal Return to Canberra
Clarke & Dawe would have slaughtered the Liberals’ “Net Zero position”.
So here it is — as if they’ve just walked back into the ABC newsroom.
The Great Gas Con
While the rest of the world races toward genuine emissions reduction, Australia’s gas giants are running a protection racket dressed up as climate policy. Santos, Woodside, Origin—the whole rotten crew have looked at net zero by 2050, nodded thoughtfully, then quietly opened the chequebook to expand the very projects that make the target impossible. This isn’t incompetence. It’s strategy.
The Goon Show Goes On
A goon show. That’s what Paul Keating called it. ASIO chief Mike Burgess, a Marina Abramović in drag, runs political theatre dressed as national security, kneecapping the Albanese government’s China diplomacy with strategically timed intelligence bombshells. The pattern repeats, the press reports dutifully, and Australian foreign policy shifts without anyone deciding anything.
Net Zero, poor thing, never stood a chance
Net Zero began as a technical phrase in climate science and ended up as a punchline in Australian politics — mangled by MPs who wouldn’t know a carbon cycle from a spin cycle. Here’s what it really means, and how fossil fuel money turned it into a permission slip to keep burning.
Open Letter to Ms Sussan Ley and Mr David Littleproud
This is not just a policy backflip. This is an abdication of elected responsibility—a betrayal of trust that puts mining profits ahead of Australia’s climate future. The elders are watching, and we will not be silent.
The Melbourne Cup: A Carnival Of Inequality, Absurdity and Status
The Melbourne Cup bills itself as “the race that stops a nation.” But what stops: a celebration of sport and equality, or a yearly demonstration of who holds real power in Australia? This forensic examination reveals a dying spectacle built on inequality, corruption, and animal cruelty, now facing its greatest threat: a generation rewired for instant dopamine hits.
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