This Month
- Opinion
- Satire
A call for destruction can mean, well, just about anything really
Confused about what “from the river to the sea” means? It’s been a common mistake right through history.
- Opinion
- Satire
Forget quantum, it’s billion-dollar briefs that our future needs
With fashion undies going for $1370 a pop, it’s clear what sector the Future Made in Australia policy must engage next.
April
- Opinion
- Satire
Seriously, Albo’s meme theme is putting comedians out of work
Memes of unlamented politicians have been found on the walls of Pompeii. This time it’s the prime minister, not the humourist, who is over the top in asking for satire to be taken down.
- Opinion
- Satire
If your Future is Made in Australia you’ve got Buckley’s
A retired self-styled tech guru is keen to pitch a number of products to the Albanese government to be proudly subsidised and manufactured in Australia.
- Opinion
- Satire
Find me the very model of a modern governor-general
Vice-regal types do not grow on trees. It takes a very special kind of headhunter to find one.
March
- Opinion
- Satire
Kevin and the Donald rewrite the diplomatic dictionary
A pedant’s guide to what the former US president really meant in his comments on the Australian ambassador.
- Opinion
- Satire
A tense Oval Office meeting for Biden: here it is verbatim
Every word hits the target as President Joe Biden dresses down Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Opinion
- Satire
Deranged by the Donald? Try these techniques to restore your calm
The Republican candidate has a certain effect on people. Modern psychology is finding new ways to cope.
- Opinion
- Satire
The duffer’s guide to calling the political horse race
Want to sound like one of those canny political insiders during the Dunkley count? Just try out this handy patter.
February
- Opinion
- Satire
Around in the baked bean aisle, the interview from hell
Not suited to stacking shelves? How about a job a little further up the corporate ladder …
- Opinion
- Satire
Falling Polls: finding love in a deadpan Nordic art house film
Stuck in a dead-end job as an unpopular prime minister, a man finds love in a town full of roundabouts.
- Opinion
- Satire
Hey Donny, it’s Kevin here, and I’m a comeback kid too
How to wrangle President Trump 2.0 is vexing every government on the planet. Australia is lucky to have priceless diplomatic talent for the job.
- Opinion
- Satire
Nemesis: a user’s guide to Liberal coups, plots and conspiracies
Lost track of who stabbed whom, when and why? Here it is, straight from the people who made history.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Satire
From Cro-Magnon to COP: how to stay on the wrong side of history
Chris Bowen is calling the end of fossil fuels. But the record of his ancestors suggests that you should not count them out just yet.
- Opinion
- Satire
How to survive the office Christmas party with career intact
The only reason for going to the office Christmas party is so that the boss remembers who you are. Until it’s for all the wrong reasons.
- Opinion
- Satire
Harry, Meghan and the pain of relevance deprivation disorder
What happens when you are the world’s most beloved couple but no-one seems interested?
November 2023
- Opinion
- Satire
‘So we stop firing at them now, sir?’ ... and other military epics
The stories of Hannibal, Henry V and General Custer almost turned out quite differently.
- Opinion
- Satire
Napoleon Elbanese. He came from nothing. He conquered nothing either
How a one-time emperor spent his final years in exile on the board of a major superannuation fund.
- Opinion
- Satire
Giving the traditional ABC viewer what he/she/they/ze/zir wants
Prepare for some imaginative new, merged and revamped shows from the ABC in 2024.
Bursting the ABC’s Canberra bubble
The ABC has admitted it needs to be more “diverse and inclusive”. Here are some program suggestions.
