The idiotic Sky News host Rowan Dean has been the source of hilarity here before, because of his inability to understand science, and particularly climate science1,2, to the point of…
Deb Frecklington, who led the Liberal National Party (LNP) to a poor result in last weekend’s Queensland state election, warned during the campaign that the tourism industry would be hit…
What we’re witnessing is a global phenomenon, something big has changed. The oligarchs have discovered the formula for persuading the poor to vote for the interests of the very rich and that formula includes massive lying and cheating on an unprecedented scale. Mobilising social media particularly to generate mendacious, manipulative adverts and memes and conspiracy theories in order to swing people round or to turn them off from voting all together. Pushing forward killer clowns like Johnson, like Trump, like Modi, like Bolsonaro, who will do whatever the oligarchs want but present a sort of almost amusing face to the public and so we laugh along with them and then they learn from each other, they teach each other. In fact very often the same political operatives will hop from one campaign to another, constantly refining the model, refining the formula.
A Senate Estimates hearing last week uncovered the fact that the CEO of Australia Post, Christine Holgate, gave four senior executives horrendously expensive (between $3,800 and $7,000 each1) Cartier watches…
Foreign Minister, Marise Payne tweeted this: “Disinformation & misinformation can undermine efforts to contain Covid-19 & save lives. will [sic] continue to work on countering the spread of false &…
As I have related elsewhere, there is a rancid smell of corruption around the federal government handing over $29 million to the billion dollar Leppington Pastoral Company in 2018 for…
Two years ago, former Liberal Member for the New South Wales state seat of Wagga Wagga, Daryl Maguire, was targeted by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)…