Mungo MacCallum (Dec’d)

Having unleashed his innumerate megalomania to destroy Malcolm Turnbull, with the unintended consequence of almost certainly scuttling his government as collateral damage, Peter Dutton has now derailed Scott Morrison’s attempt to mend the fractured relationship with the Pacific.   (more…)

There was none of that namby-pamby nonsense about taking a cup of kindness for the sake of auld lang syne, or anyone else for that matter.  Scott Morrison went straight on the attack to welcome 2019. “My job – our government’s job — is to prepare Australia for any opportunity and eventuality,” he bellowed.   (more…)

Scott Morrison, his office informs us, is talking a short break – off to the country for a bit of biking, boating and fishing.  But not shooting; the image of our easy going prime minister with a lethal weapon in his hands might send the wrong message.   (more…)

And so this is Christmas;
And enough is enough.
Another year over
And who gives a stuff.

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The darkest hour, they say, is just before dawn. And it just may be that a glimmer of light is appearing in the five year nightmare of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison dynasty. (more…)

It appears that Scott Morrison has now given up on this world and is planning to move on to the next. (more…)

So that was the parliamentary year that was, finishing in rancour, dysfunction and procrastination, a triumph of politics over policy.

This was not a surprise, but the level of hyperbole and hysteria whipped up by the desperate prime minister and his colleagues finally went off the map. (more…)

According to at least one member of the New South Wales Liberal executive, Sally Betts, the member of Hughes, Craig Kelly, is a bully, a thug and a disgrace.   (more…)

Yet again we are assured that the Adani mine is going ahead – Adani Lite, they’ll only put it in a little way and if it hurts, well, they’ll just see how far they can keep shoving. (more…)

Scott Morrison’s slogan of the week was congestion busting —  he was in favour of it. (more…)

The quest for a right wing opponent to GetUp! has been going on for almost as long as the quest for a right wing Phillip Adams at the ABC – and with about as much success. (more…)

Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean people don’t hate you. It sometimes seems that Malcolm Turnbull is being pursued by that old Andy Capp character Joe Btfsplk, who brought bad luck to everyone near him.  (more…)

ScoMo’s blue bus is the perfect symbol of the man and his government – a brash, ostentatious cliché, non-functional and completely phony. (more…)

The French playwright Jean Giradoux once said something to this effect: “If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.” (more…)

The past, they say, is a foreign country – which is just the way Scott Morrison likes it. (more…)

Scott Morrison is ploughing on regardless, business as usual. There is no need to change direction – rather the imperative is to go on pretty much what we are doing, but more aggressively. (more…)

Welcome to the hung parliament. A disaster, according to our PR obsessed prime minister – instability and chaos, But for ordinary Australians it might not be so bad.  (more…)

Emergency warning: off the streets, go to the storm shelters immediately, It is too late to flee – save yourselves as best you can. (more…)

It started as theatre of the absurd, but by the end of the week it had become an increasingly improbable fairy story. (more…)

We are now more than six weeks into the ScoMo regime, but most of us – and that includes some of our most recent Prime Minister’s close colleagues as well as a tentative opposition – are still trying to figure out just who the man really is trying to be. (more…)

They say that if the only tool you have is  a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And perhaps if the only life experience you have is in PR, everything looks like a billboard. (more…)

Sound the trumpets, fire the cannons, stop the presses – Scott Morrison’s fledgling government has actually managed a result. (more…)

Scott Morrison has announced that the productivity Commission is to inquire and report on how mental disease affects the Australian economy. (more…)

That’s what happens when you make a captain’s pick, choose your mates to fill important jobs because … well, basically because they are your mates. (more…)

Under normal circumstances Australians do not spend much time thinking about aged care facilities. (more…)

In hindsight, it wasn’t Scott Morrison’s brightest move to describe his colleagues as the Muppet Show. (more…)