Anthony Albanese’s government is under siege—but history shows Labor can fight back. From Whitlam’s boldness to Keating’s fire and the Greens’ grassroots power, survival demands courage. Here’s how.
Tag: Australian Politics
Is Albo in Trouble? The Death by a Thousand Cuts.
Is Anthony Albanese finished — or simply governing inside a system designed to grind Labor down? From dark-money campaigning and media asymmetry to climate compromises, welfare cruelty, and the AUKUS mirage, this essay examines how a cautious government is bleeding by a thousand cuts in a political ecosystem rigged against it.
Abbott’s Bondi Grandstanding: Who Elected Fox News to Speak for Australia?
Picture Tony Abbott at the IPA lectern, Bondi’s blood barely dry, branding the killings “an attack on all Australians.” Before we accept the performance, it’s worth examining the script – and the stagehands. Abbott is not a former PM quietly offering reflection. He is a paid director of Fox Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s US outrage sausage-machine, earning well over AU$500,000 a year. When he inflates tragedy into civilisational war, he speaks from inside the Fox wheelhouse, not from civic conscience.
Who’s Got Religion? Part One: The Myth of the Religious Nation
Australia is a post-religious nation whose institutions remain structured for religious privilege. We have declining religious participation but expanding religious institutional power. We have fewer believers but stronger legal protections for discrimination. We have marginal religious practice but media that treats religious institutions as deserving special deference. Most Australians don’t have religion. But religious institutions—operating through legal privilege, institutional networks, lobbying capacity, and media deference—hold a powerful grip on Australian public policy, education, and employment law. They retain structural power precisely because they no longer need mass participation.
When grief becomes a weapon: The Bondi massacre and the politics of blame
The Bondi massacre was not caused by a Prime Minister. It was enabled by institutional failure and exploited for political gain. In two parts, this essay examines how grief was weaponised, why antisemitism is being dangerously misdiagnosed, and what would actually make Australians safer.
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.
Stand By Your Ban: A Post-Truth Reflection
Welcome to Post-Truth Australia, where the lies have become so brazen they’ve stopped pretending to be anything else. The Coalition’s “Net Zero Heroes” want to dig up every tonne of coal in the country. Tasmania’s preparing a modern potlatch ceremony – ceremonially bankrupting itself with a stadium that’ll cost billions while the AFL chips in $15 million. And our Communications Minister stands firm on a social media ban that wouldn’t work in an iron lung. It’s mythomania at industrial scale, and as Hemingway knew: we go broke gradually, then suddenly.
The Machinery? Clarke and Dawe do Richo’s state funeral
BRYAN DAWE: John, the government has announced a state funeral for Graham Richardson.
JOHN CLARKE: That is correct, Bryan. Full ceremonial arrangements, high attendance, very dignified.
BRYAN DAWE: Despite his record.
A State Funeral for Richo? What is Labor thinking?
By canonising Graham Richardson, the Labor Party has handed its enemies – the Murdoch press, the Coalition, the Advance machine – the perfect weapon to use until the election.
Urban Wronski Writes 