Australia has a tragic genius for repeating its strategic mistakes. Part 2 of Urban Wronski’s AUKUS series traces how bipartisan cowardice; from Morrison’s photo-ops to Albanese’s deference; turned dependence into doctrine and loyalty into lunacy.
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Handing Over the Till, Paying the Tab
Anthony Albanese flew to Washington to secure Australia’s critical minerals supply chains. He returned having signed away control of them. In the Cabinet Room, Trump publicly humiliated our ambassador moments before signing an $8.5 billion framework built on Letters of Interest, aspirational price floors, and submarines that may never arrive.
The House Always Wins: How Australia’s Gambling Addiction Became a National Paralysis
The Quick Read (Or go straight to The Long Read, Chairman’s Lounge Edition, six paragraphs below.) The Misdirection They wheel out the same victim every time and dress her up as the villain: some pensioner in a brown cardigan, her whole world gutted by the … Continue reading The House Always Wins: How Australia’s Gambling Addiction Became a National Paralysis
The Parliamentary Sin Bin: How Conscience Became a Foul
When Senator David Pocock questioned why the Parliamentary Sports Club was funded by gambling lobbyists, he was expelled. The former Wallabies captain’s crime? Noticing that a “purely social” club is registered as a lobbying organisation, sponsored by Responsible Wagering Australia, and presided over by the Prime Minister.
Liberal Party Leadership: Myths and Maternal Veto
A blistering satirical op-ed dissecting the Liberal Party’s leadership crisis, maternal veto politics, and the mythmaking machinery of WA’s oligarchy—complete with burner phones, pink lunchboxes, and disappearing ink.
A Credibility Gap in Search of a Conspiracy
Australia’s Coalition postures as tough on national security, but their record tells another story: Iran scare campaigns, hypocrisy on Tehran trade, and the trillion-dollar AUKUS blunder.
Captured State: How Corporate Australia Wrote Labor’s Climate Surrender
The real tragedy isn’t just pissweak climate policy—it’s the systematic corruption of democratic governance itself. We’ve cultivated a political class more eager to curry favour with the titans of industry than to tackle the programs that might actually drag our collective arses out of the fire. Cabinet ministers book more face-time with fossil fuel executives than climate scientists. Policy frameworks emerge from industry “working groups,” not public consultation.
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