Maths and media: where the election will be won and lost
It’s always unwise to make predictions about who is likely to win any election, but if Scott Morrison does end up on the victory podium...
Author: Eddy Jokovich
Scott Morrison and racism
Fifty people. That’s a large number of people, and it’s still difficult to comprehend this is how many died in the Christchurch shootings last Friday....
The evil crimes of George Pell
George Pell has been sentenced to jail for a total of six years, after being found guilty of five charges – one offence of sexual...
Scandal: Nothing to see here, please move on
One of the greatest take-away surprises from a visit to Parliament House during the House of Representatives Question Time for many people is the sheer...
Short changed by the banking Royal Commission
It’s always amusing to see senior politicians caught in the headlights and that’s exactly what we witnessed this week when the report from the Royal...
The media forgets how it destroyed Julia Gillard
We should never underestimate the ability of the mainstream media to employ double standards, engage in collective amnesia, and paint a rosy picture of the...
The Year of Living Incompetently: 2018 in review
2019 promises to be an exhilarating year in politics, with a federal election guaranteed before May 18, and an election in Australia’s largest state –...
Morrison’s mix of religion and corruption ends a bad year
A terrible year for the Liberal–National Government has almost ended, but if there was any hope the final week before Christmas might offer some hope...
The unknown Scott Morrison
It seems like an eternity ago, but it has only been three months since Scott Morrison became Prime Minister, during a week of madness from...
The LNP loses yet another Newspoll
It wasn’t meant to be like this. Scott Morrison must have thought the job of prime minister was all too easy. Within two weeks of...
After Wentworth, the Liberals are looking into the abyss
One of the most invaluable skills in politics is the ability to gauge the opinions and understandings of the electorate and, once this has been...
Beware the hand of God
It’s six minutes into the second half of the World Cup game between Argentina and England in 1986, and the scores are locked at nil-all....