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Climate protest is existential

Climate protest is existential

A backpacked middle-aged man stood staring at a high school girl while she waited for her train to pull into Footscray station. ‘You know there’s more ice in Antarctica now than there was ten years ago, don’t you?’ he barked. The girl was on...
Against Common Sense

Against Common Sense

Speaking to a crowd of like-minded conservatives in New York recently, Tony Abbott made an appeal to them: ‘In today’s world, we need less ideology and more common sense’. The refrain came amidst a plea to protect the institution of marriage; that’s...
Malcolm Turnbull’s confidence trick

Malcolm Turnbull’s confidence trick

The vitriol with which much of the liberal mainstream media responded to Tony Abbott’s Margaret Thatcher memorial speech last month confirmed what many rightwingers have been claiming: that the scorn towards the former PM was a result of his conservative social...