‘Personalist’? You mean Peronist surely? Spell-check?
Ex-journalist, ex-broadcaster, ex-Catholic, ex-X, ex-hausted. Mr Denmore is the (very) long-term nom-de-plume of now retired Australasian journalist and corporate communications hack, Jim Parker
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‘Personalist’? You mean Peronist surely? Spell-check?
Australia needs a populist left-wing government that puts the wind up the fascist regime in the US and tells them where to stick their submarines. Oh, and we’ll have the deposit back, thank you.
Why does Albanese think Australians will be impressed by him having cosy midnight chats with Trump about our ‘shared interests’? It’s because, as usual, he is more concerned about the opinion of the criminal organisation News Corp and its political wing the LNP than what Australians actually want.
‘The Ministry of Peace’, ‘The Ministry of Love’, ‘The Ministry of Plenty’, ‘The Ministry of Information’. Seems strangely familiar. Who are we are war with this week - Eurasia, Oceania, or East Asia? What sad, broken country.
Trump to order Department of Defense renamed the 'Department of War,' official says reut.rs/45WjKeM
So a retired Australian politician shaking the hand of China's president is dancing with the devil, but a sitting Australian politician shaking the hand of a US president (a convicted felon, rapist, fomenter of armed insurrection, avowed friend of dictators) is honouring our great ally?
Try this www.rossgittins.com/2025/09/if-a...
Presumably because their love of power and the trappings that go with exceeds any desire to do something with that power. They’re like ‘self-funded’ retirees with millions in super refusing to run down their capital
Hard to argue with Ross Gittins. If Albanese plans to just sit on his huge majority without doing anything useful to address climate change, generational inequity, housing, tax rorts and plenty else, he should quit and bequeath the job to someone with the bottle. www.smh.com.au/business/the...
The ruinous AUKUS scam makes no sense for Australia on any level. What will it take for Australia’s hopeless political duopoly to wake up? asks ANU strategy analyst Allan Behm. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
To fellow Sydneysiders, can you point me where the queue for the ark starts?
Everyone knows the Russians are kleptocrats, gangsters, spivs and corrupt carpetbaggers. No wonder Trump loves them
All reporting of Netanyahu's opinions on the Australian national interest should state upfront that he's an indicted war criminal subject to arrest if he comes here.
Journalists tend to speak the truth in retirement, I’ve found.
How predictable that the ‘Liberal’ Party, a far right ideological cell to advance Rupert Murdoch’s fascist agenda, should turn the recognition of Palestinian statehood into another front of their manufactured culture wars. Those people are despicable.
Joyce is an inch-deep cynical attention seeker shacked up with an inch-deep Murdoch hack. That journos keep buying his schtick tells you how criminally stupid they are.
I suspect it’s because journalists are so lazy and devoid of imagination or intellect that they like to pretend there are only two views on everything - red team vs blue team. So they legitimise fringe nut-jobs because they supposedly represent the ‘other side’. What a disgrace the media has become
Honestly, why on earth does the mainstream media pay so much attention to what the LNP says? They are a marginal rump. They do not represent any substantial body of opinion. It is a part of reactionaries, fascists, racists and god-bothering fundamentalists.
I wouldn’t lose heart. There are all sorts of global linkages going on. Language is an issue, but I think you can deal with that through co-branded initiatives
It’s a good idea, but you need to broaden the market beyond the borders.
In other words, even worse now
I used to wonder how the world stood by and let the Holocaust happen. Now it seems clear. Israel is doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews and we’re just watching it happen, thanks to gutless politicians terrified of the Zionist lobby and being branded ‘anti-Semitic’.
At what point does the Western world start backing up its rhetoric on Palestine by imposing tough economic sanctions on Israel, banning arms shipments and expelling their diplomats? Isolate and shame the bastards, assuming they’re capable of feeling shame.
Trauma-afflicted shooter in New York armed with an automatic weapon kills multiple people at random, and all the libertarians celebrate his agency as an expression of ‘freedom’. The Americans are insane. Let’s cut our links with them. They are nuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/n...
Class signifier from the ALP right, m-a-t-e
Then they'd never take the job in the first place. They're only interested in the post-politics sinecure.
Well, they’re working but not for the welfare of the Australian people
The big gap in the Australian political spectrum is a nationalist and populist party of the left. There is a lot of anger and dismay in the community about the Albanese govt’s capitulation to the US military industrial complex. The ALP is hopelessly compromised.
Australia badly needs a national Independence Party that governs from our interests, not those of our former colonial overlords in London and Washington. Time to grow up and leave home at last.
Or more precisely little dicks hiding behind big subs (which don’t exist)
So much of the tub-thumping in the UK and Australian media about AUKUS is down to Sinophobia and outright racism. It’s the old Anglophile Empire Club - which the vile Tony Abbott epitomises - desperately trying to relive their now departed glory days.
And what is this presumption about the UK “offering reassurances” to Australia about AUKUS? Why should that be reassuring?? Most thinking people here see AUKUS as putting a target on our backs. The fact is these defence ministers are owned by the arms industry. It’s their retirement plan.
When the UK and Australian defence ministers pontificate about “our nations facing a new threat”, what are they talking about? Because to me, the biggest threat to Australia and the UK is a failing US state lead by a sociopathic moron. www.smh.com.au/national/bee...
Seems evident that Starmer is terrified of going the same way as the ‘anti-Semitic’ smear that destroyed Jeremy Corbyn.
Howard French, a Columbia journalism professor, writes that with hope evaporated in Gaza and Palestinians now powerless to protest on their own behalf, there is a global obligation to call for an end the genocide. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/t...
Revolutionise our world or destroy it? As claims around AI pile up, we need to start asking tough questions. And a brilliant new book does just that. Read my review. www.jparkermedia.com.au/post/the-ai-...
She ran out of things to write about years ago. Just clickbait and confected outrage wrapped up in a martyr pose. Sad really.
China is often accused of interference in Australia's affairs, but the US undermines our sovereignty far worse, @keanebernard.bsky.social writes.
Shabi’s book makes clear that the ‘honorary white’ treatment is in itself a symbol of western antisemitism (the real kind) as it serves two purposes in throwing the Jews a bone and permanently demonising the Islamic world while serving the interests of Exxon et al.
Shabi writes of ‘Judeo-Christian heritage’ as a mid-20th century hyphenated invention of the West to cover for its guilt over the Holocaust. Subsequently, ‘antisemitism’ became a stick for the right to beat the left with and to turn Israel into an honorary ‘white’ enclave ranged against Islam.
Highly recommend this recent book on the issue of the weaponisation of anti-semitism. The writer is an Iraqi Jewish woman. read.amazon.com.au/kp/kshare?as...
Watching ABC News breakfast finance report. Some great stories around about Australians getting ripped off in investment scams and the role of banks. But they throw to a ‘market analyst’ talking about US earnings season. This is like reporting on housing policy and interviewing a real estate agent.
Americans earning less than $17K a year will lose about $820, or 5.7% of their income, under Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’. On the other hand, the richest 0.1%, earning more than $4.3m, will gain $390,000, a 2.8% increase. (He’s for the ‘working people’, you know.) Chart from The Economist.
The ‘news’ is a construct and for decades in Australia Rupert bloody Murdoch has had a monopoly on its manufacture
Must have an adjective.
The Australian public are barely aware that most news copy in Australia is written by barely literate hacks who see the safest route to mediocrity as cut and pasting whatever they read in News Corp papers.
Expect better of SBS though. Just lazy Control C, Control V, err, journalism.
‘Prime Minister Albanese is under mounting pressure over the lack of a Trump meeting,’ reports SBS News. Under pressure from whom? asks this old editor. Who said that? What is their name? News consumers need to be spared the subterfuge of journalistic passive voice.
The head of an international nuclear watchdog agency said on Monday that the conflict in Iran “risks collapsing the global nuclear nonproliferation regime” and that if diplomacy is not pursued, “violence and destruction could reach unimaginable levels.”
Yes, they had an agreement under Obama, then Trump ripped it up. And then he accuses the Iranians of refusing to negotiate. The only way Tehran can guarantee its security (like India and Pakistan) is get nuclear arms. It's quite logical. This is all about serving the interests of Israel.
Then when Saddam arched up, the US invaded Iraq in 2003 which led to a 10-year civil war and created the terrorist group Islamic State. Yet still when Washington says ‘jump’ Albo and Marles say ‘how high?’
The US overthrew Iran’s democratic govt in 1953 when it sought control of its own oil. Washington installed the despot Shah in its place, then when the Shah was overthrown in 1979 the US backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in a bloody 8-year war against Tehran. Why wouldn’t Iran seek nukes??
Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, insists Albo. But it’s just dandy for Israel to have nukes and refuse to sign the NPT, while indiscriminately waging war on its neighbours to keep the corrupt Netanyahu in office. What am I missing here??
We’re told the ALP is being pragmatic and exercising realpolitik in its grovelling to Trump. I would have thought the only way we’ll get their attention and respect is to stand up and publicly disagree wth them, for once. Who advises these people??
An excellent question: ”How can any regional state rely on Australia when our foreign policy decisions are not made in Canberra but in Washington?” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Quite. The level of self dumbing down you have to do when reading and watching how the legacy media nonchalantly normalises Trump’s fascism just leaves you questioning your own sanity
Media not at all curious whether Trump’s demand for countries to spend a greater share of GDP on defence is just donor service for the arms industry, just as his withdrawal of the US from the Paris climate treaty served the fossil fuel industry. He’s a spiv and a mobster. Why not just say it??
And the words that don’t get them condemned on Sky or in The Australian.Just gutless.
Sorry don’t feel sorry for him. He’s a hack. Just vacuous
If you can’t see what a compromised individual he is I have nothing to say to you.
And here’s ‘Albo’, with his lisping speech impediment, telling us it’s about Israel’s ‘right to exith’. No mate, it is about your capacity to putting your shallow personal ambition above the principles you espoused as a youth. What a careerist whore you are.
We can all see Trump is an illiterate amoral idiot. What’s to stop the media (supposedly the smart, literate people) pointing out the absence of clothes on the emperor? Need to make mortgage payments not worth the peril of telling the truth?? Just give up and go and work in PR, you careerist morons.
Marles is such a provincial mediocrity and placeholder for American power - a careerist vacuum and strutting egotist without a shred of substance, intellect or sense of any mission beyond his own aggrandisement
Is Iran developing WMD? “Uncertain” By attacking Iran unilaterally,will the US and Israel prompt Iran to accelerate WMD production? “Almost certainly.” What will Australia do? “Waiting for the fax from Kevin and the editorial from Rupert.”
Let’s see how courageous Trump is when Iranian operatives are targeting civilian targets on the US mainland. So much for the ‘peacemaker’ president. Trump is toast.
Hard for the West to moralise about Russian attacking Ukraine outside international law when Israel and its puppet state the USA are flouting every principle with their attack on Iran. This will not end well.
Could Trump can AUKUS? economist.com/asia/2025/06... from The Economist
Blisteringly accurate. How North Korean TV news might have reported on Trump’s birthday military parade.
Israel’s government, with tacit US support, is now operating with a level of impunity that suggests an upending of the post-1945 international legal order. theconversation.com/israel-iran-...
Yes, there’s definitely a whiff of the old white trash of Asia superiority complex about it. Again, and despite all the evidence that they shouldn’t, they dance to the vile Murdoch’s tune.
It’s the Canberra security and defence establishment who are all on the Sinophobic gravy train. These are all Peter Hartcher’s sources.
The perfect job for some who has always been nothing more than a smarmy, self-interested, shallow spiv.
I would have thought the popular stand would be say we’re reviewing the contract because of the excessive cost and because we are not sure about the wisdom of allying ourselves with a failed state. Just say it. What will they do?? Tell the Americans to f&^k off.
And all lining up for well-paid defence and mining jobs when they leave politics.
Yes, these are the End Days crowd of which Morrison is a paid up member.
Let’s have a referendum. Do you want to spend $360 billion of taxpayers’ money to a failed state ruled by a corrupt rapist felon and conman on submarines that will never be delivered or should Australia work with its other allies on a defence strategy.
I agree, but the point is the empire won’t protect us. If the US is walking away from Ukraine, it ain’t going into bat for Australia, Taiwan, Japan or South Korea.
I just read Hugh White’s quarterly essay. He says the Canberra establishment is still living in the unipolar 90s. Clueless and completely devoid of imagination.
I don’t get it. What is wrong with the ALP that they can’t see AUKUS is a dud? When ScoMo is the only former PM singing its praises, you have to wonder whether Albo and Marles are the full quid.
My god, but it is a long, slow and painful and slow death. Can’t we get someone to administer some Nembutal?
Murdoch is killing the Liberal Party. Mine for MWM michaelwest.com.au/a-dying-demo...
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far far away, the AFR’s crusading hacks serve up another slice of unquestioning, ‘exclusive’ wealth porn.
This treatment just proves how cowed their journalists are, essentially running PR for the Zionists who hide behind the fiction that they are representative of Jews, just as Trump claims to be a Christian.
The ABC is in the pocket of the Zionists. You saw they took that interview down with a Palestinian representative. Just lily-livered careerists masquerading as journalists.
Let’s speak frankly. The Zionists are doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews. But Western politicians, trying to atone for appeasing Hitler and terrified by the ‘anti-semitism’ slur, just wave the genocide on through.Thats really what’s going on here.
I simply do not understand how Western Democracies, with politicians nominally supporting human rights, can sit by while the fascist regime in Israel indiscriminately kills civilians in Gaza, killing babies, bombing hospitals, assassinating journalists. What is WRONG with these people???
The super tax concessions were designed to encourage folk to save for retirement, taking pressure off the age pension. But they became primarily a tax minimisation vehicle. We must define a reasonable benefit and cap it. That’s not just equitable; it’s fiscally responsible
And the irony is these extremely well-off people are the first to lecture the unemployment and those on sickness benefits about ‘entitlement culture’, all the while quietly sucking on the taxpayers’ tit.
The truth from @grogsgamut.bsky.social Why such a fuss over reducing tax concessions on super balances over $3m? Because the rich and vested interests fear the rest of us will realise just how big of a rort they have going. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Agreed. It’s Mean Politics for Unhappy People.
No, I’ve convinced the real evil ones are Gen X - ScoMo’s generation.
I’m 66
Retired public school principal John Frew captures Sussan Ley’s near impossible task in dragging the Liberal Party (never mind its fossil fuel-captured coalition partner) from the far right back to policies that reflect the concerns of middle Australia. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...
Yes, I do know a bit about that. Did you see my reply earlier to someone who asked about it?
Or rather, the Libs confuse what they stands for with what their donors stand for - wrecking the planet (miners), monetising division (Murdoch), war profiteering & demonising refugees (defence and security industry), killing public education (private schools), wrecking Medicare (private insurers)
Those people are usually illiterate, I’ve found, wrongly assuming their winning of the generational real estate lottery makes them financial geniuses. A reckoning is coming.
And the irony is her franking credits, even if she had them, were never imperilled. The issue was refunds for people whose tax liability was less than their franking credits. Hint: Not many. Already comfortable. Mostly pretty well off.
And the fact is we can all see this. It’s karaoke politics. But then we are expected to play the ‘karaoke public’, mouthing along with the predictable scripts uttered by a zombie journo class.
Precisely. The pundits are saying they are shocked they performed so badly. I’m shocked they didn’t perform worse. Their ‘plans’ were culture war triggers dressed up as thought-out policy.
The Libs still think we live in Howard’s world. But those who voted for him in ‘96 are now mostly dead. People that age now are better educated, mostly progressive, accept climate change, worry about their kids & grandkids and reject the sexist, racist, science-denying worldview of the Coaltion