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House prices hit a blip and it’s all media panic. Please, let’s have some perspective
Of all the stupidity Australians have accepted as “normal”, our relationship with house prices may be among the most ridiculous. This nation is in the grips of a media panic over a small blip in house prices. This blip apparently deserves wall-to-wall coverage and dire warnings of impending doom.
Naff or not, these ‘giant road Rambos’ tell us much about politics right now
You can almost trace the rise of political discontent across Western democracies to the increase of big dumb utes on our roads. This is not about class or the type of person attracted by the road rambos, but what their popularity says about us as societies.
Outdated and killing trust – all that’s wrong with press gallery’s night of nights
If there is one thing all leaders should be focused on, it should be maintaining trust. In our institutions and our democracy, and all those foundations which underpin it. Which is why it is so strange that the federal press gallery continues to hold its Midwinter Ball.
Labor soars, Coalition fumbles – and no one’s really looking at the big issues
Labor finished the last parliamentary week on a high. There is a feeling within caucus that the party has a plan for dealing with One Nation, helped along by the fact the Coalition is completely without one.