Omicron, OMG? No worries, Health Minister Greg Hunt is all abreast of the latest threat to public health, even finding time at the end of his statement to parliament to read aloud a letter from Olivia, the mother of Bella, a six-year-old girl in Koo Wee … Continue reading Not a dry eye in the house as rats abandon ship.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, … Continue reading Cop26, Boris and Scotty’s cop-out, just a lot of hot air in the end?

“Money makes the world go around?” As Gladys Berejiklian fronts the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, ICAC – only to be told to stop her pre-rehearsed pleas of innocence and virtue and just answer the question, taped phone calls reveal former love- buddy, Daryl Maguire, … Continue reading Berejiklian, Morrison and Joyce mugged by reality.

“…the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favoured few booted and spurred, ready to ride them…”  Thomas Jefferson “It’s not just a health crisis, it’s an economic crisis.” Dominic Francis Perrottet, a gangly colt by Gordon Gecko … Continue reading Hey, Hey, it’s Perrottet? Can Morrison survive

“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.” Oscar Wilde Tributes flood old and new media, when NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is pushed under a bus, a bloodless coup, her parting shot at … Continue reading Glad All Over

We all live in a Yellow (Peril) submarine, yellow peril submarine, yellow peril submarine … All our friends are all on board, everyone of us lives next door…”  Up periscope. What’s that smoke on the water, that oily miasma, that stench over the wreck of … Continue reading Morrison runs up the white flag on Australia’s sovereignty.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr’s snap lockdown forces PM fan-boy, Josh Frydenberg to doss-down at The Lodge, in ScoMo ‘n Frydo’s Canberra Sleepover, a lightweight sitcom pilot about mateship, relatability and who does the washing-up. In Episode One –An Odd Coupling – scripted by professionally … Continue reading Josh and Scotty’s excellent adventure can have no happy ending.

“This is literally a war and we know we’ve been in a war for some time but never to this extent.” Gladys Berejiklian “Stay calm. Delta is here.” Dazzling the entire nation with her gold standard sang-froid and petulant self-righteousness, a plucky Gladys Berejiklian, premier … Continue reading Glad not happy as PM leaks against her and Delta goes viral.

“If they open up at 50 per cent, that would be insane. Even at 70 per cent they are going to have to be massively careful.” Professor Peter Doherty Hoots and jeers break out from socially distanced Coalition MPs, with some zooming in from home … Continue reading Bronte Python’s Flying Circus and the mystery of Morrison’s moving vaccination goalposts.

There’s no roadmap out, wails NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, Typhoid Mary of our Delta blues, parroting Scott Morrison, the PM for NSW, who savages his gold-standard, open for business poster-girl; turns on her to save his own hide.  Hand-ball Morrison gets JJ Frewen to fire … Continue reading Typhoid Mary, Gladys, no longer PM’s poster girl, Gladys, gets the Delta blues.