Oh Look! Another defence ‘mistake’ costing billions The French submarine debacle was a topic covered by Dingo News in April 2022. We were the only media outlet to challenge France’s outrageous demand that we pay them $5,500,000,000 as...
The prime minister promised to restore commonality and common purpose. The reality is Labor is delivering just more of the same. When Anthony Albanese claimed victory on election night in 2022, he spoke of making Australia a “common ground where together...
The Rich have influence One of the more useful results of accumulating enormous wealth is that people pay attention to your pronouncements. The ideas espoused by the mega-rich are covered extensively by the media and discussed with a seriousness that...
Per Capita – origins Per Capita’s origin story is contentious at best, sinister at worst, and certainly not helped by threats from Per Capita when someone exposes it. So what blatant lies did the gentle Strewth Queen spout? Lies heinous...
What is Robodebt? Best to examine what Robodebt is before challenging the apologist orthodoxy that has emerged to excuse Labor’s role in its creation. “The Robodebt scheme, formally Online Compliance Intervention...
The contract Political/diplomatic issues tend to get a mite convoluted, so let’s keep this simple. Australia had a contract to have some diesel submarines manufactured by France. If Australia backed out of the contract they had to pay a penalty of...
As most of you guessed – this was my April Fool piece An opportunity to get some satire and future history into an article and to challenge prevailing political orthodoxies. A very enjoyable task, albeit tinged with the sadness of what could be. ...
If anyone believed an “Albo” led Labor government would be more social democratic and less neoliberal than their Hawke/Keating/Rudd/Gillard predecessors, this Greg Sheridan article about Murdoch’s new favourite for PM should disabuse of them of such...