Edited by Lee Duffield
Freedom and Truth
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 2:12 am
Things have come to a push-and-shove stage in talks between Europe and Australia over trade – with the EU’s head man in agriculture taking a tough position in Australia this week.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 12:35 am
Lee Duffield looks at floods, fires and blizzards this week, in a time of climate change
Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 1:48 pm
Lee Duffield wonders about the dumping of the Matildas’ team coach just ahead of their World Cup campaign.
Monday, December 24, 2018, 11:00 pm
Winding down at year’s end is bringing the traditional mix of devotional observances, silly season and anxiety about what’s likely to come next.
Lee Duffield writes.
Sunday, December 23, 2018, 2:03 pm
As soon as the Labor Party won easily in the Victorian elections on 24 November commentators country-wide shut things down, saying the federal Liberals have no chance of re-election next year.
Lee Duffield assesses that, asking what is making voters tick, and what kind of new messages will get communicated in the coming months as Liberals campaign in panic.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 1:37 pm
The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on Queenslanders to obey bushfire warnings — from the G20 conference in Argentina.
Lee Duffield looks at how government leaders managed on the communication front during Queensland’s week of flames.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 10:35 pm
The national media union, the MEAA, wants a shake-up of the ABC to try and proof it against political interference, including a Board with more “independent, accountable and experienced” directors.
Lee Duffield says the call for more “transparency” is contained in a submission to a Senate inquiry – one of three announced investigations.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 12:02 am
Lee Duffield looks at the 5% swing to Labor in the Victorian state election — moving from 45 to maybe 56 out of the 88 seats – and possible reasons. He says some main answers will be in long-term changes going on within the Liberal Party.
Monday, November 26, 2018, 11:23 pm
People of the Pacific states got money out of this month’s summit of the APEC organisation – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation – but might have felt walked-over in the scrum for power. Lee Duffield reports the Pacific is a new discovery of the 21-member inter-governmental free trade forum.
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United States: Looking for a coalition against Trump
Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 11:53 pm
Reported by Lee Duffield
Most electors rejected Donald Trump, by 2.8 million votes, before losing to him through the electoral college system – and there’s now a push to mobilise that majority against him.
Lee Duffield says Trump’s surprise 2016 victory stirred up a new left-wing movement alongside or within the opposition Democratic Party, amongst other things thinking of the Presidential election next year.
He profiles the newly-arrived politician, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and takes a comparative look at a sometimes very similar, and also different American figure, Michelle Obama.