Society

There are two kinds of money in Australia. Welcome to The Wolves Of Canberra: How Your Superannuation Became Capital. The money politicians tell you they’re spending. And the money they…

There was a time — and it wasn’t that long ago — when Australian politics had a very simple job description. A politician’s role was to govern. Not to perform.…

Australia loves a soldier. We carve them into bronze. We cast them in eternal mid-stride, chin up, rifle slung, staring nobly into a horizon that never answers back. We etch…

When a politician ascends to the highest office in a state, scrutiny expands beyond policy. It widens to networks, relationships, donors, advisers and family members. That scrutiny intensified when Jacinta…

Once upon a time in Australia, There was incompetence, There was negligence.And then there was watching a slow-motion train wreck, calling it “transformational reform,” and handing it another shovel. Welcome…

There is something uniquely modern about a government deciding that the best use for productive farmland is for it to stop being productive. Because Fuck Farming. How Anthony Albanese decided…

There is a uniquely Australian political magic trick where a minister can preside over cascading failure across multiple portfolios, never fix the problem, never fully explain the problem, and still…

There is a particular obscenity to political neglect when it happens within walking distance. Not the abstract kind—the kind that lives in spreadsheets, forecasts, and national averages—but the physical kind.…

Struth. There is a certain Australian sound that only appears in moments of profound political nonsense. It’s not outrage. It’s not pride. It’s not even confusion. It’s struth. That low,…