“Human beings are social beings, who need to be able to rely on each other. That requires trust, and trust requires truth-telling.” Quassim Cassam Grace Tame looks daggers as the PM fakes cordiality and avuncular affability for the camera. A black belt in subterfuge, deception and … Continue reading Morrison’s Coup De Grâce

“Nine years long” reads a handmade sign in a sealed window of the Park Hotel, Swanston Street, Carlton, a grim, grey, makeshift, Melbourne gaol for forty-six refugees and asylum-seekers. Most were originally locked up on Papua New Guinea and Manus Island. Now the men are held … Continue reading ScoMo plays Djoko while Dutton buys tanks

Our nation is shocked at news from Washington that Tamworth’s favourite son, deputy PM, blue-blooded, Red Octopus, Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce, picks up a dose of ‘rona and must abort his mission to shirt-front Mark Zuckerberg after a brilliant one day bull-session in The Old … Continue reading Mr Joyce goes to Washington

You can smell the exhaust, the burnt rubber and a thousand cigarettes, this is a crowd in love with living dangerously, breaking rules, especially the dictates of reason and common sense – the perfect setting for larrikin-lad, Scott Morrison, to head down to the racetrack … Continue reading Morrison woos Gladys to attack ICAC

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.