The more I heard the discourse around respect and violence,the more it reminded me of being told that it was up to all Muslims to own the problem of terrorism and solve it.
What happened at Bondi Junction isn’t any less horrific if we conclude it isn’t terrorism. The victims are no less dead,and their deaths are no less tragic. The problem of violence against women isn’t any less serious.
In a desperate attempt to regain lost voters,Dutton’s 2.0 version of the Coalition is the party for the worker,but with no obviously pro-worker policies.
The accusations against the United Nations agency helping Palestinians in Gaza are murky,but the consequences have been painfully clear.
If the government aggressively attacked Facebook on its use of our data to target advertising and manipulate us,it would probably have the side effect of giving news organisations a chance.
Billionaires were never popular,but they are almost reflexively reviled today in our time of rising inequality. Yet,here we see the exceptions to the rule.
Australians have a habit of outsourcing very important things to profit-seeking businesses,then complaining when they behave like profit-seeking businesses.
Promises can legitimately be broken,but that requires an extraordinary change of circumstance:the kind that renders the original policy newly absurd. That doesn’t exist here.
It was this huge,prestigious company,whose ads I’d watched my whole life. Was I an icon now,by association? Not just Waleed. But Waleed from Telstra.
The magic of the Matildas wasn’t that it was a consumer experience,or even a sporting one. It was that it was united everyone. That is a matter of public interest.
Housing is more unaffordable than ever,inflation is hanging around like a bad smell and social cohesion is buckling under pressure. Australia,we need to talk.