Bernard Keane says Albanese is a manager, not a leader. Urban Wronski says the rot runs deeper — into the Farrellised machinery of a captured Clayton’s Labor.
Tag: social cohesion
The Siege Within: How Clarity Died in the Aftermath of Bondi
After the Bondi Beach massacre, Australia promised solidarity and reform. Instead, Labor delivered riot shields and silence. This essay traces the descent from empathy to enforcement—and asks whether the soul of Australian democracy can still be reclaimed.
Clarke and Dawe: The Messages That Refused to Disappear
The National Archives orders ABC and SBS journalists to stop their Signal messages from disappearing. The ABC declines to explain how it will protect sources. The SBS is “still working through it.” Nobody is accountable. In the spirit of Clarke and Dawe, Urban Wronski follows the circular buck-passing to its magnificently absurd conclusion.
Kill Bill 2.0: Media, Moral Panic, and the Politics of Self‑Righteous Anger
Albanese’s Royal Commission may yield clarity — even some justice — but it can’t cleanse the bad faith of its birth. In a media economy addicted to conflict and an Opposition desperate for a demolition job, the PM is condemned whether he resists or concedes. And “social cohesion” risks becoming the Goddess Araldite: bonding by suppression, not democracy by dissent.
Urban Wronski Writes 