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A few days ago I was rather cynical when I read that Dutton would release his nuclear plan within days. Ok, when I’m wrong I’ll be the first to admit it… Well, maybe not the first but I’ll certainly admit it when I have no other choice and it’s clear that nobody will believe me…

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A test article – is he nuts? “I thought the chance of Dutton being prime minister was so terrible,” Turnbull says. “I thought Dutton would run off to the right. He would be dog whistling. He’d be going on about Muslims and migrants, and any right-wing, hot-button, red-meat issue he could go for, he would…

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From the first handshake between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Australian PM Anthony Albanese at G20 in Bali in November 2022, to Australian trade minister the Hon Don Farrell’s visit to China in May 2023, the meeting with Xi in Beijing during Albanese’s China trip in November 2023, Chinese Foreign Minister H.E Mr Wang Yi’s Continue reading »

Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull famously described Coalition leader Peter Dutton as a “thug”. That description appears particularly apt in Dutton’s nuclear power plans. The Coalition’s nuclear project is opposed by state Labor governments in each of the five states being targeted. Victoria, NSW and Queensland have laws banning nuclear power. The Labor governments Continue reading »

Improving housing affordability is the key to resolving the cost-of-living crisis, but the policy options are limited and will inevitably take time to have their desired effect. Yesterday’s article showed that the cost-of-living crisis mainly reflects a decline in housing affordability. Accordingly, any government response to the cost-of-living crisis needs to focus on what can Continue reading »

It is hard to know whether the bleatings of the major media outlets about losing the Meta $70 million payments under the media bargaining code are pathetic or laughable. Indeed, perhaps both. Now whatever you think of the mainstream media in Australia, and the deleterious impact of Meta and other social media outlets on our Continue reading »

A silent consequence of the horrifying hostilities taking place in Gaza is the long-term behavioural impairments for the children who, the United Nations estimate, make up 40% of the casualties. The Save the Children organisation estimates, as of June 2024, that 14,000 have been killed and 21,000 are missing, disappeared, detained or buried in the Continue reading »

The Opposition’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, was seen storming around parliament house ranting and raving after learning that the Government planned to ban Tutti Fruitti flavoured vapes, his personal favourite. ”Bloody Government, they need to... Read More ›

Julian Assange is expected to be in Australia late tomorrow, a free man. Footage tweeted by Wikileaks hours ago showed Assange walking up the stairs onto an aircraft bound for Saipan in the US-administered Mariana Islands, Monday afternoon UK time. Sources have told Pearls and Irritations Assange is accompanied on the flight by Australian High Continue reading »

In 1969, then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam stated, “We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer—a poorer economy, a poorer civilisation, because of this human and national waste.” Although Whitlam was talking about tertiary education—this was part of his policy speech when his government abolished university fees, Continue reading »