It’s only the first week – and if you thought Peter Dutton’s election campaign looks chaotic, dishevelled, and thin on policy substance, you’re right. 

Could 2025 be any more burdened by less-than-great expectations? By the time this article gets published, an authoritarian populist with a penchant for grand gestures, threats and land grabs will be installed in the White House.

Jenny Hocking’s recent lament in The Echo that many of the ALP government’s legislative achievements haven’t cut through is understandable. Dis- and mis-information, skewed media ownership and journalistic biases and incompetence only add to the myopia.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and Mullumbimby’s own, David Bradbury, is showing his latest film The Road to War, an excoriating examination of the AUKUS defence agreement, at the Uniting Church at 6pm on Friday, August 30.