Category: Federal
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Albo the featherweight
This week’s specials: 1) “Albo” isn’t hacking it; 2) Eddie Jones super rat; 3) NSW Art Gallery shamed by cat scandal; 4) Ali Kazak compares media coverage of Hong Kong and Gaza; 5) New Pommie slogan: Ban the All Blacks haka; 6) Ash Barty, Aboriginal sports heroine; 7) L J Hooker’s shameful window sign Anthony…
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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…
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The question of Albo
The Question of Albo A small but loud-voiced number of subscribers wrote to me after I assessed Anthony Albanese – that’s him, the new ALP leader – a dunce as a politician, Cabinet Minister, Shadow Minister, Deputy Leader and now Top Dog. I checked with very well-informed contacts in Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane to discover…
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The Weekly Notebook returns
Scomo takes Australia to war Pastor Scott Morrison has committed Australia to war in the Middle East. He has sent Australian warships, aircraft and special forces half way round the world to the Straits of Hormuz to “protect international trade” and the “freedom of shipping”. Morrison has joined the US war party against Iran. Ignoring…
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The Weekly Notebook – Sydney Modern: how not to build an art gallery
Sydney Modern: A case study of how not to build an art gallery Ask anyone with any knowledge of the arts in NSW and you will discover an almost unanimous view that the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney’s Domain needs major renovation and upgrading. Everybody agrees with the proposition that the dear old 19th…
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The Weekly Notebook – Politicians behaving badly
Politicians behaving badly Luke Foley has resigned as NSW Labor leader after a right-wing Liberal MP named him in parliament over allegations of sexual misconduct with a female ABC reporter. The incident occurred at a Christmas drinks party at a swish CBD wine bar just down the street from Parliament House in November 2016. The…
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The Weekly Notebook – beginning of the end of Trump
The beginning of the end of President Donald Trump Next Tuesday, November 6, is Melbourne Cup Day which Australians know as “the day that stops a nation”. This year, the following day, Wednesday, November 7, is when we start receiving results from the US mid-term elections and thus becomes “the poll that stops the world”. I’ll…
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The Weekly Notebook – Liberal philistines vandalise Opera House
Liberal Party philistines back Opera House vandalism Pastor Scott Morrison, Australia ’s latest Prime Minister, has found himself in trouble again due to his Pentecostal verbosity. Giving strong support to advertising horse racing on the sails of the Sydney Opera House Morrison said the decision was “a no-brainer”. He’s right, of course. No one with…
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The Weekly Notebook – a vote for Phelps is a vote for the Liberals
Why a vote for Kerryn Phelps is a vote for the Liberal Party in Wentworth by-election Kerryn Phelps, past president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), is an “independent” candidate at the by-election in Wentworth, Australia’s wealthiest per capita electorate on Saturday, October 20. Who wins the seat, previously held by ousted prime minister Malcolm…
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The Weekly Notebook – two coups
Two coups, two victims – what’s going on? Two major public figures have been executed in recent coups in Australia – Malcolm Turnbull was despatched as prime minister on August 24 and Michelle Guthrie as ABC managing director on September 24. In subsequent media coverage the executioners could not, or would not, explain why Turnbull…