Author Archives: Justinian the Great

Christine Holgate is an opportunist if ever there was one. She is playing the “Canberra Bubble” game to boost her seemingly upcoming unlawful “termination” (aka resignation) lawsuit off the back of the Brittany Higgins scandal. She is hoping to shakedown a feeble … Continue reading →

Now that Morrison has embraced identity politics as the solution to life’s problems I personally don’t think his mooted women’s quota goes far enough or is permanent enough to solve the historic and systemic injustice women suffer in Parliament House. … Continue reading →

Recently I wrote that at the heart of the Morrison Government’s troubles is the fact that it constantly oversells and under-delivers pointing to the slow vaccination programme as the latest example. Unpacking this further the trouble is that the Morrison … Continue reading →

“Even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems” [my emphasis] – Tim Flannery, 2007 (reported here). Warragamba dam (above) spilling over yesterday. Clearly nothing happening (above) to river systems. So naturally, Tim’s Climate Council  (he … Continue reading →

The Morrison Government’s handling of the pandemic has been pretty average. Having outsourced hotel quarantine and testing and tracing regimes to the states the Federal government’s role has largely been reduced to that of an interested bystander and funder of welfare … Continue reading →

Last week you might have read that Linda Reynolds paid out a “substantial sum” to Brittany Higgins in settlement of a defamation claim. I’m not sure what is worse: the fact that Reynolds managed to get sued in the first … Continue reading →

We already knew that Dan Andrew’s grotesque bungling of hotel quarantine led to the deaths of nearly 800 mostly older Victorians. Today we found out the cost to younger people caught up in his hideous police state led second lockdown. This … Continue reading →

In last week’s The Australian the key takeaways from the latest Newspoll was that Morrison is riding high, Albanese is more or less terminal and the Coalition are a certainty to win the next election. Leaving aside Newspoll’s predictive shortcomings … Continue reading →

The mainstream media have uniformly dismissed claims about widespread voter fraud as baseless from the moment they prematurely declared Joe Biden President-elect. The claim that there is no evidence is itself totally baseless requiring that the Trump legal team irrefutably … Continue reading →