Fifteen people were killed at Bondi. Grief must come before politics. This op‑ed argues for facts over fury, rejects opportunistic narratives, and centres solidarity.
The Wells affair: distraction as political business model
A minister’s travel claims become breakfast TV theatre while the hard questions fade: the under-16 social media regime, privacy risks, and the deeper conflict at the heart of Canberra’s Sport and Communications portfolio. In a country where elite sport depends on gambling and broadcast money, distraction is not a bug. It is the business model.
AUKUS Caucus
Australia has built a $368 billion cargo cult and called it strategy. The AUKUS Caucus offers money, bases and sovereignty in exchange for submarines that do not exist, built by shipyards that cannot deliver, on timelines that belong to fantasy. The only thing arriving on schedule is the bill.
The RBA’s War on Workers: When Orthodoxy Becomes Cruelty
The RBA promises to defeat inflation by crushing households, not profiteers. Class discipline dressed as economic management.
The seeing stones. Australia and its New CIA-Made Friend.
“Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.”Nikolai Berdyaev(Also, apparently, Palantir’s unofficial mission statement.) I. Enter the Magical Spy Orb, Stage Right In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the palantír was a sort of medieval CCTV camera with attitude. A seeing stone that showed you just enough truth to … Continue reading The seeing stones. Australia and its New CIA-Made Friend.
Wronski’s News on Wednesday
Tuesday 10 December revealed Australian politics at its finest: banning teenagers from social media while spending $368 billion on submarines the UK admits it can’t build, from a country that’s already moved on diplomatically. Welcome to the Kingdom of the Unfalsifiable, where policy exists beyond verification, protected by the impenetrable forcefield of good intentions. As Richard Denniss observed, only a fabulously rich country could commit such sums without troubling Treasury or Parliament. We’re not battlers – we’re loaded enough to operate entirely in the realm of political fan fiction.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Australian men are defecting to One Nation in record numbers. This isn’t hardship—it’s status dislocation marketed as political rescue. Meet Kevin.
Mockery of Democracy: Now Brought to You by Sportsbet
Tasmania is being forced to build a billion-dollar AFL stadium it cannot afford and will not own. Two viability studies warned against it, but the AFL made the stadium a condition of entry to the league. Public debt will fund private profit while Tasmanians inherit the bill for a dozen games a year.
CAUGHT IN THE CRUNCH: The Surveillance State Comes to Your Local Supermarket
Walk into any Coles outlet today and you’re not just buying milk. You’re feeding a surveillance machine processing 10 billion rows of data through Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies. In early 2024, Coles signed a deal to deploy Palantir’s “Foundry” platform across more than 840 stores, analysing every transaction, every worker’s movement, every shift allocation. Workers across Victoria are monitored, with one shelf-stacker in Ballarat saying: “The computer knows where I am before my manager does.”
Labor’s Betrayal of Environmental Justice, a response to Bob Brown.
Anthony Albanese has perfected the political sleight-of-hand that turns protection into permission. Bob Brown’s forensic analysis reveals Labor’s environmental legislation as corporate capitulation.
Urban Wronski Writes 