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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
How Does President Kamala Sound?
POSTED 5am (AEST): Surely it ends in a few hours. Surely?
Around 8.30am (AEST), two hours from now, Joe Biden will take centre stage at his first full-blown press conference since November. No modern president, not even Ronald Reagan during his second term’s last troubled year managed to keep hard questions at bay for so long. The Gipper, though, could draw on an actor’s residual skills to finesse his part in the Iran-Contra mess, itself a symptom of a declining leader’s ill advised reliance on the likes of Oliver North. As the Great Debate debacle demonstrated, Biden has only the rule book working in his favour: his 3000-odd convention delegates are his and his alone. If he wants the nomination, which despite everything he clearly does, it should by rights be his for the taking.
Or maybe not.
That’s the funny thing about rules — if you break a few, why not smash ’em all? According to several reports overnight, frantic Democrat operatives are phoning individual Biden delegates to…
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Aug 29 2024
17 mins
