Tag politics
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Thus Spake Mungo: Bloody Victorians
Déjà vu all over again. In the dim, dark ages before I even arrived in Canberra, I was writing stories about the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party
June 22, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 16 -
Thus Spake Mungo: The revolt
Shock, horror. Someone has tested positive to COVID-19 after the Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne and Peter Dutton is terrified – his worst fears have been realised, he hyperventilated.
June 15, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: come on in, the water’s fine
Finally it’s safe to get back in the water – well some bits of it, some of the time, as long as you behave. And make sure you stay in the water – keep swimming or surfing. Sitting on the sand is still decidedly unsafe.
April 27, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 25 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the cost of a job
It has only taken a week for the simple beauty of JobKeepers to become a little tarnished.
April 20, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 21 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the snapback
Having shrugged off the minor and temporary distraction of parliament, Scott Morrison can resume doing what he is best at – marketing himself and his often-dubious achievements.
April 13, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 24 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the coalition’s relief
To the manifest relief of the coalition and its supporters, Scott Morrison’s approach to the coronavirus crisis has been cautiously endorsed by the voters.
March 16, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 15 -
Thus Spake Mungo: To market
Scott Morrison is nothing if not a marketeer. Or, to put it more precisely, he is nothing except a marketeer.
February 3, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 18 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Matt Kean
Scott Morrison’s puerile sneer that most of his cabinet ministers wouldn’t even know who (NSW Environment Minister) Matt Kean was actually contains a grain of truth.
January 27, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 13 -
Thus Spake Mungo: The Sacrament
The sacrament is torn, the veil of the temple is rent in twain. The sacred surplus is sacred no more. It is defrocked, excommunicated, cast into the outer darkness.
January 13, 2020 | Mungo MacCallum | 4 -
The big good things we got in the decade gone by
When Galileo said that the Earth went around the Sun, not the other way around, priests tortured him...
January 9, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Crappy Hissmas from ScoMo and his orcish elves
Scott Morrison is rummaging around in his near-empty presents sack looking for some spare socks and mouldy chocolates, the sleigh is off at the panel beaters in need of drastic repairs, and the reindeer continue to shit on us from a great height.
December 23, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 10 -
Thus Spake Mungo: bubbles
And so ScoMo’s annus miraculous staggers to an end, with the promise that the next one will be the year of delivery, the one that produces the outcomes which will make all the dithering, procrastination and avoidance of issues all worthwhile.
December 16, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 24 -
So you want to be a councillor/politician?
This document was written without fear or favour, by The Echo editor Hans Lovejoy for the politically curious who are considering a tilt at public life. My intention is to hopefully inform and engage aspiring political actors so they don’t become... Read More →
December 3, 2019 | Hans Lovejoy | 8 -
Thus Spake Mungo: tap the mat
One, two, three, four. Keeping faith’s a dreadful bore. Five, six, seven, eight. Tap the mat, capitulate.
July 29, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 13 -
Thus Spake Mungo: The betrayal
Scott Morrison really likes quiet Australians – as quiet as possible.
July 15, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 18 -
Thus Spake Mungo: the economy
Last week Scott Morrison spelled out what he called his economic policy…
July 1, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 9 -
Thus Spake Mungo: Morrison soft pedals on Hanson
Scott Morrison would have been happier and clappier than usual when he went to his Horizon Pentecostalist Church last Sunday.
March 25, 2019 | Mungo MacCallum | 9 -
Hawke’s blunt view on politics and climate
Bob Hawke has offered a blunt appraisal of international politics and climate change while launching former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans' memoir.
October 5, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
The cutting of our penalty rates will lead to the coalition’s demise
Bruce Apps, Townsend. The politics is alive and well but the decision to cut penalty rates from our low paid workers shows that we have a Fair Work Commission lacking in empathy and compassion with a belief that it was... Read More →
February 27, 2017 | The Echo | 1 -
Everyone in this photo voted for the very first time this year
I love the smell of an election in the morning… not! I don’t get politics. I just don’t. Okay? I don’t understand the mechanics or the machinations, I don’t know my senate from my double dissolution, from my hung parliament.... Read More →
December 26, 2016 | Eve Jeffery | 2 -
Even bad politicians can show the way
Hayo van der Woude, Mullumbimby. Arch conservatives Donald Trump and Tony Abbott have packaged their aggression as compassion, according to Waleed Aly (SMH, December 12).
December 23, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Rudd needs to go: Roxon
Kevin Rudd is a ‘bastard’ who will always be a destabilising influence and should leave parliament for the good of Labor, former senior minister Nicola Roxon says. In a scathing attack on the former prime minister, Ms Roxon said he... Read More →
October 17, 2013 | Echonetdaily | 0
