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.
Christmas 2025, and Australia’s teenagers are unwrapping their presents: new VPNs, borrowed parental logins, and AI-generated profile photos. Two weeks into Labor’s world-first social media ban, and it’s already a monument to performative governance. Meanwhile, the minister who should be celebrating is in hiding over travel rorts, and the policy architect has vanished into an expenses scandal. Welcome to government theatre at its finest.
While Finland invests twenty years teaching its children to think critically about media, Australia reaches for symbolic gestures and declares them progress. Within days, a new law regulating social media will take effect; one already destined to fail in its stated aim of protecting young … Continue reading Ban It and They’ll Thank Us Later: Labor’s Teen Social Media Panic
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s hands enforcement to the platforms that profit from teen attention. That’s not policy, that’s Monty Python with cabinet approval.
A spectre is haunting Victoria—the spectre of a youth crime wave. Premier Jacinta Allan, nearly two years into the top job, finds herself besieged by a relentless narrative: brazen young offenders running wild, a state in chaos, a government losing its grip. The political playbook … Continue reading The ‘Youth Crime Wave’ is a Political Construction, Not a Public Safety Crisis
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