Sussan Ley lasted nine months. The glass cliff, the men’s rights vote, and the conservative faction that never wanted a woman leader — Urban Wronski connects the dots.
Tag: Liberal Party
The Hollow Crown: Australia’s Liberal Party and the Contest for a World That No Longer Exists
The Liberal Party’s leadership circus isn’t just about who wins—it’s about whether Australia can afford the show at all. From Angus Taylor’s Cayman-stained ledgers to Andrew Hastie’s heretical protectionism, the contest for the Liberal crown reveals a party—and a country—grappling with a world order in freefall. Part 1 of a 2-part analysis.
The Blue Bacillus: How the Liberal Party’s Corporate DNA Became a Fatal Infection
The Coalition’s polling collapse reveals a terminal decline. When corporate DNA meets authoritarian legislation, democracy itself becomes the casualty.
The Stakes of a Ley Victory—What a Coalition Government Would Mean for Australia
Sussan Ley’s Coalition promises regression on climate, housing, welfare, and integrity—while struggling to control its own fractured ranks and win back lost voters. In a volatile world, the risks of her untested leadership could not be higher. Why 2025 demands better.
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
Scott Morrison waves coal in Parliament. The Minerals Council supplied it. He thought he was conducting. He was the instrument.
That moment wasn’t an aberration. It was testimony.
For decades, the mining lobby has achieved what every industry dreams of: complete bipartisan capture. Not just influence. Not just access. Ownership.
Today’s analysis maps the complete system; from dark money pipelines to media amplification, and asks whether we’re willing to build a movement powerful enough to break it.
The $9 Trillion Net Zero Lie: How the Coalition Turned Investment Into a Scare Campaign
When a political party starts throwing around numbers with more zeros than Peter Dutton had votes left in Dickson, you know you’re not getting economic analysis, you’re getting a con job. The Coalition’s $9 trillion net zero scare campaign is the latest instalment in a decades-long franchise of climate hysteria, from Whyalla’s promised obliteration to the $100 lamb roast that never arrived. But this time, the real cost is the one they never mention: the price Australians are already paying for a lost decade of delay, obstruction and weaponised ignorance.
THE FISH BOWL: HOW MURDOCH MEDIA AND MINING BILLIONS STRANGLED AUSTRALIA’S CLIMATE FUTURE
Malcolm Turnbull knows the Coalition is trapped in a “fact-free, reality-free culture war” over climate, dictated by Sky News and Murdoch media. He’s right—but what he won’t admit is that state capture extends to Labor too. While Turnbull points fingers at Coalition climate denialism, Labor quietly approves fossil fuel projects that dwarf the Coalition’s rhetoric. Australia is the world’s second-largest exporter of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions, and both major parties are drowning in mining money.
Advance Australia Where?
An investigation into how the group Advance, backed by mining billionaires and American consultants, is pushing the Liberal Party to abandon its Net Zero pledge.
Saturday long read: the Coalition’s Net Zero position is not a policy, it is a scented screensaver.
This piece examines how Net Zero has become a scented screensaver: soothing sounds, calming visuals, ambient reassurance for donors. And how the fossil rentier class continues to extract while the political class performs a kind of serenity ritual in public.
Title: “The Carbon Question Time” – A Liberal Return to Canberra
Clarke & Dawe would have slaughtered the Liberals’ “Net Zero position”.
So here it is — as if they’ve just walked back into the ABC newsroom.
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