Labor’s National Conference: A Triumph of Unity
When silence isn't golden; we all pay a lot more for it in the end.
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In the Land of the Blind
As the world watches agog at the spin-cycle porthole of the FIFA sports-washer and SBS raves about the magic of a planet united by football, which Australia must call soccer, it is time to look at the rules of the real game.
Reaching Out
On the wellness racket and the lie of “resilience”.
Mid-Winter Ball
A tribute to Bryan Dawe and the late John Clarke
Sons of Toil, Part II: The Steward’s Son
Anthony Norman Albanese was born into a community that believed in the compact: endure, petition, defer, and trust that the institution would eventually deliver.
Sons of Toil, Part I: The Toolmaker’s Bequest
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Catch 22 Trump’s New Bedlam
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 was the trap no rational mind could escape: merely reaching for an off-ramp was proof you had to stay.
Canossa on the South Lawn
The king turns eighty on Sunday. The pretenders have been queuing since January 1077.
One Careful Owner
Three second-hand boats, two hundred tradesmen shipped to Hawaii, and a $368 billion mortgage against an enemy nobody is allowed to name. With apologies to Bryan Dawe and to the late John Clarke.
The Art of the Steal
The Deal if that There is No Deal; Never Was.