mastodon 4.7.2Co-presenter New Politics podcast, award-winning publisher, non-award winning journalist, author. Son of refugee boat people, MEAA member, company director. Owns one cat. Former everything: academic, reporter, editor, musician, skateboarder, designer, hirsute. Worked everywhere in media except News Corporation – had to draw the line somewhere. Don’t argue with me about being biased, because I know I am. #auspol
The Royal Commission on antisemitism is rapidly becoming a mechanism to police dissent, shield Israel from criticism, and redefine the limits of political speech in Australia.
New Politics analysis here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/palestine-protest-and-free-speech
We keep being told women must be believed when sexual violence occurs, but why are women not believed when sexual violence and depravity is perpetrated by the IDF? Why are Albanese and Wong so quiet about these allegations from the Sumud Flotilla when the evidence is there?
The Weekly Briefing from New Politics. Read it here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-politics-of-looking-away-gaza
The allegations are serious, the victims are Australian, and the questions are unavoidable: will the Albanese government demand accountability from Israel, or continue to look the other way?
Read the latest from New Politics: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/when-will-australia-speak-out-against
The Teals may have started as an independent protest movement all the way back in 2019 – but if they become a party, they risk becoming exactly what voters were trying to escape from in the first place.
Listen in to today’s podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-teal-party-of-australia-will-it-take-off/id1303543549?i=1000770068133
If Australian citizens make serious allegations of rape and sexual abuse in Israeli custody, why isn't the government demanding answers?
Listen in here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/discarding-human-rights-for-the-sake
If Israel is at war, then Australia will be at war too. That’s what will happen if US Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act. US, Israel & Australia – through AUKUS – will become so embedded with each other, it will be hard to tell them apart. Did we ask for this?
Read the article here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-aukus-secret-how-australia-risks
The 2026 Budget has triggered a political war over housing, wealth and who the Australian economy is really designed to serve. And it’s a political war manufactured by the mainstream media and vested interests.
Today’s New Politics podcast. Listen in! https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-continuing-budget-fallout-a-political-war/id1303543549?i=1000769142254
Australia is spending up to $368+ billion on AUKUS, yet the submarines keep changing, the costs keep rising, and there’s no scrutiny. This is Australia’s worst defence deal ever!
Listen to today’s podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/aukus-the-%24368-billion-submarine-mirage/id1303543549?i=1000771219536
As Israel’s far-right ministers openly celebrate humiliation and violence, governments are finding it harder to maintain the fiction that Ben-Gvir represents only the fringe of Israeli politics. He is the real face of Israel and the world needs to stop deluding itself.
Read the full article here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/ben-gvir-is-the-real-face-of-israel
When governments start deciding which political slogans are permitted and which ones are banned, it’s no longer about public safety, it’s eroding democratic freedoms.
The latest New Politics analysis:
https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/from-the-river-to-the-sea-and-the
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An inquiry into antisemitism and social cohesion is going far beyond racism and discrimination, and Australia is confronting larger questions about free speech and who gets heard in democratic debate.
The New Politics podcast, listen in: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-royal-commission-palestine-and-the-clampdown/id1303543549?i=1000768979580
Wow. A minor reform to property taxes has created a major backlash among the property classes and the usual mainstream media banter about “broken promises”. The only problem is the reform doesn’t go far enough.
Latest New Politics analysis about the upcoming week: https://newpolitics.com.au/p/housing-crisis-a-budget-backlash
AUKUS, housing and universities: These are the policy failures that keep hindering Australia’s future and there’s little willingness to change.
Read about it here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/aukus-housing-and-universities-the
Brereton’s resignation has exposed a deeper problem: Australia’s anti-corruption watchdog has failed to deliver the accountability, transparency and public confidence it was supposed to restore.
Read the New Politics analysis here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-anti-corruption-commission-that
When an anti-corruption fails to find corruption – its only job – the entire political system loses credibility. Listen to the New Politics podcast!
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/integrity-on-hold-the-crisis-facing-the-national/id1303543549?i=1000770240720
The political system is falling apart – it’s currently affecting the centre-right of politics, but soon to affect the centre-left if they don’t get their act together. The New Politics weekly briefing of all the big issues in Australian politics this week.
Read it here: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/australias-political-system-is-falling
Is One Nation rising, or is the Liberal Party collapsing? Either way, the cracks in the conservative side of politics that has been predicted for some, is becoming a reality.
Today’s podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/one-nation-and-the-implosion-of-the-liberal-party/id1303543549?i=1000768014317
The most radical budget since Whitlam and “bringing on socialism”? If only… but the critics have got to be kidding. If the budget is socialism, then we need a lot more of it.
Housing tax reform is welcome, but the cuts to the NDIS and timid welfare measures reveal Labor’s continuing ideological caution and pandering to vested interests.
The New Politics budget verdict here:
https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-new-politics-verdict-a-slightly
The Labor government needs to stand up to vested interests and create a Budget that works in the public interest. Will tonight be any different? Who knows, but Chalmers has already said those words – ‘spending restraint’ – so it’s not looking great.
The latest New Politics analysis: https://www.newpolitics.com.au/p/the-budget-labors-slow-and-stuttered