The 2019 election verdict: It’s Labor
It’s Election Day 2019 and our final prediction is the same as it has been since August 2016: Labor will win this election, and it...
Author: Eddy Jokovich
The final week of Campaign 2019
We’re into the final week of the 2019 election campaign and, if it was a simple contest of ideas, the Labor Party would be confident...
A tale of two eggs: Gillard and Morrison
Five-letter word; to egg on. That was my first cryptic crossword clue many years ago and after staring and thinking about what the answer could...
A Labor victory is in sight
We’re into the final two weeks of the 2019 federal election campaign, and two opinion polls released today still point towards a Labor victory. The...
On water matters set to sink Morrison
It’s the end of the first week of the federal election campaign and, already, we have the mainstream media telling everyone within earshot that this...
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...
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 –...