Month: October 2019

  • Shorten-Albo arm wrestle

    This week’s specials: 1) Shorten v Albanese; 2) The Great Pokie Robbery; 3) Media catastrophe (three of them!) 4) Being a spoilsport; 5) The Great Gough; and more Shorten-Albanese arm wrestle: Dumb versus Dumber Anthony Albanese, the new Australian Labor Party and former leader of the “hard left” faction, has moved to the centre-right. At the…

  • Spotlight on racehorse cruelty

    This week’s special reports: 1) ABC spotlight on racehorse cruelty; 2) Behind Hong Kong’s protest movement; 3) Boaty McBoatface shakes The Establishment; 4) Vatican engulfed in scandal – again!; 5) George Pell remains a player; 6) John le Carré monsters Boris Johnson; 7) Tosser of the Year award; 8) Lowy Institute’s prize of shame.  …

  • Canberra Press Gallery stuff-up

    This week’s “exclusives”: 1) Canberra Press Gallery stuffs up; 2) Trials and tribulations of Mr Assange; 3) Whatever happened to Ellen Fanning? 4) The Marise Payne & Stuart Ayers Show; 5)  Frank Lowy: billionaire ex-terrorist; 6) Shock-horror: Irish MP blasphemes; 7) Albanese Quote of the Week Press Gallery in major stuff-up The 1,000-odd accredited members…

  • Albanese’s future

    This week’s “exclusives”: 1) Albanese chooses his successor; 2) Boris Johnson plots a coup d’etat; 3) Tommy Lascelles, Palace courtier; 4)  US “diplomat” is a spy; 5)  Health tip: Don’t eat red meat or eggs. Future of Anthony Albanese Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has chosen Leichhardt Mayor Darcy Byrne to be his successor in the…

  • The hypocrisy of Penny Wong

    This week: The hypocrisy of Penny Wong … Time running out for Donald Trump For the record, I regard Senator Penny Wong as the smartest and most courageous woman in Federal Parliament. She has been a huge asset to the Labor Party in countless recent elections as its combative spokesperson against the lies and deceit of…