Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test

Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test

From the Press Gallery: The first regular sitting of the House of Representatives for 2026 commenced last week so I rode down to Canberra to see what was happening. It was the same day mortgage payments went up for many Australians. Not because of government spending. Oh no. Because of private sector demand increasing. Even though this was factored ...
The road to Hell, revisited

The road to Hell, revisited

When Billie Eilish recently declared that ‘no one is illegal on stolen land’, the statement was received as a moral flourish – an applause line designed to signal seriousness and compassion. It asked nothing of the audience beyond assent. History, law, sovereignty, and consequence were compressed into a sentence that felt virtuous precisely because it ...

Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test

Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test
From the Press Gallery: The first regular sitting of the House of Representatives for 2026 commenced last week so I rode down to Canberra to see what was happening. It was the same day mortgage payments went up for many Australians. Not because of government spending. Oh no. Because of private sector demand increasing. Even though this was factored ...

The road to Hell, revisited

The road to Hell, revisited
When Billie Eilish recently declared that ‘no one is illegal on stolen land’, the statement was received as a moral flourish – an applause line designed to signal seriousness and compassion. It asked nothing of the audience beyond assent. History, law, sovereignty, and consequence were compressed into a sentence that felt virtuous precisely because it ...