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Has Albanese finally snuffed out the light on the hill?

Has Albanese finally snuffed out the light on the hill?
24.01.2025 6

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Is Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog corrupt?

Is Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog corrupt?
14.01.2025 10

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Peter Dutton: not a monster?

When Peter Dutton was voted into the leadership of the Liberal Party by his federal colleagues in 2022, they did so on the understanding that he...

08.01.2025 4

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A Trumpian Dutton will use Howard’s legacy to march into office, and Albanese will let him

The coming month of January 2025 is shaping up as Australia Day month. The Coalition has signalled it will be making heavy weather of the weeks...

17.12.2024 5

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Whatever Dutton wants, Albanese makes sure he gets

The Albanese Government’s obsessive enthusiasm for matching Coalition and News Corp demands with policy responses was on show twice last week. On...

12.11.2024 2

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Albanese’s refusal to heed warnings about Australia’s media is now swamping his re-election chances

Some events of recent weeks have been a reminder of the phenomenon the ancient Greeks called hubris. The Greeks thought of hubris as a character...

01.11.2024 1

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Dutton is unacceptable, but Labor under Albanese doesn’t deserve to be re-elected

Increasing numbers of political observers are arriving at the view that Anthony Albanese appears to be doing everything possible to assist Peter...

29.09.2024 3

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Albanese’s social media gesture confirms the primacy of bipartisanship

The New York Times published an article last week by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and pollster Will Johnson. Haidt has spent many years...

23.09.2024 1

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Albanese’s impotence gives Dutton undue credit

One of the first things Tony Abbott did soon after becoming Prime Minister of Australia in 2013 was to abandon the fibre-to-the-premises model that...

19.08.2024 1

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Peter Dutton: Australia’s uncomplicated Trumper

When a divine entity allegedly intervened to save Donald Trump from a gunshot pellet that grazed his ear at a rally in Pittsburgh on Saturday 13...

24.07.2024 1

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