'Coup' claims after government sacks council over its 'toxic culture'
JAMES O’NEILL. There are “Nutters” and then there are “Nutters”
In interview given to Australia’s ABC network former Prime Minister Paul Keating referred to the Australian intelligence agencies as “nutters”. The comment was in the context of the advice that those intelligence agencies were giving the government on relations with China, Australia’s most important economic partner by a considerable margin. Continue reading
Spy game: Inside the fight to beat hackers who know no borders
A police raid on a journalist's home sparked a press freedom firestorm. But what's happened to the actual government proposal that was at the heart of the top-secret leak?
RAMESH THAKUR. Labor must look in the mirror
In foreshadowing Donald Trump’s victory six months before the 2016 election, I had written: ‘Of all the candidates in both parties, Trump’s appeal seems to reach the broadest and deepest with respect to region, class, education and income… They are looking for an in-your-face champion who will stick it to the snobs (elites) and scolds (political correctness warriors)’. Labor was guilty of the same mindset as Hillary Clinton’s disastrous comment on the basket of deplorables and reflected a similar hubris. The same hubris was obvious in Bill Shorten’s response that asking for costings of climate action policies was dumb.
MUNGO MacCALLUM. Scott Morrison, the opportunist.
History, declared Henry Ford, is bunk. And 0n (18th May), the Australian electorate agreed.
Rather than punishing the coalition punishment for nearly six years of civil war, policy inertia, dysfunction and backstabbing, the voters rewarded them. Continue reading
ROGER SCOTT. Writing from the ‘Blue Ribbon’ north.
Queensland has delivered a killer punch to the Australian body politic, not for the first time. Continue reading
'Press Freedom: On the Line'
'Press Freedom: On the Line'