Australian Politics

And why would it be?

Readers will doubtless be aware that Bud Light recently launched a new marketing campaign starring a transgender influencer in the US.

The word on street is that despite recent concessions on trade sanctions, Beijing is getting unhappy that Anthony Albanese has yet to set a date to visit China.

This is one of the stranger energy shocks I have seen.

Peter Hartcher has a great idea.

So says Essential Research: Labor is now the preferred party to handle the rising cost of living and interest rates after a collapse in the proportion of Australians who believe the Coalition is best on key aspects of the economy.

There is a reason that Australian manufacturing is going out of business beyond the pressures of the ponzi economy.

Somebody has made a clandestine phone call to the gas cartel and threatened blue murder.

Meet David Knox.

A new satirical troupe of cookie-cut commentators is born at The Guardian.

Australia’s greatest-ever rentier grouping has embarked on a war for slaves: Australia’s largest employers, farmers and small-business owners have declared war on Anthony Albanese’s industrial relations reforms, launching a multimillion-dollar campaign attacking union-backed same job, same pay laws as a direct hit on aspirational ­workers.

Ah yes, the sense of it all: Indonesia will consider new limits on exports of liquefied natural gas, a potential extension of trade curbs that’ve previously disrupted nickel to coal and palm oil markets.

So far, Albo is sailing along in the polls like it is the good times: However, it isn’t the good times at all: There has now been a material 15-point drop in confidence since Albo was elected so much of this is on his watch.

This is so amusing to the daily nihilist that I’m not sure where to look.

The east coast is in the middle of the worst energy shock ever outside of the Ukraine War with no end in sight.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has defended the state’s debt blowout, arguing it needs to borrow money to pay for the infrastructure that will be needed as Melbourne prepares to become Australia’s largest city.

Pretending to care is the stock in trade of the corporate culture warrior.

We all know ScoMo was a pathological liar.

Western Australia’s premier, Mark McGowan, has resigned.

As the developed world de-risks China, Australia is re-risking it.

Next time you go to Europe for a holiday, or your child jets out to the same for a gap year, make sure you pick up a few million tonnes of LNG.