Tipping points, politics, NotW and the longer view
As the Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks prepare to appear before the House of Commons, we may have reached a tipping point where the noise machine’s days are numbered.
Black Saturday: What are state governments good for?
The latest controversy to emerge from the inquiry into the Victorian bushfires revolves around Christine Nixon going off for dinner in the middle of the conflagration. The usual partisan football stuff, you might think. Guy Rundle disagrees. In a powerful [...]
Tony Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry
There’s been some talk about Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq War on the open thread, so it might be best to have a dedicated post to focus comments. A good starting point for discussion is [...]
Future of public broadcasting
It’s a bit of a hard ask to keep up with all the policy reviews the Rudd government has initiated. And they appear to be in the habit of releasing the results or closing deadlines for submissions well into the [...]




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