Our moral centre spoke as Australia voted for kindness
Both hard left and hard right were handed a hospital pass – the election was a ‘referendum on kindness’, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Both hard left and hard right were handed a hospital pass – the election was a ‘referendum on kindness’, writes Joe Hildebrand.
For those still in doubt about the genuine contempt Labor has for the Greens, here’s what one insider sent to Joe Hildebrand. The ALP member declares “the Greens can’t create anything, but they sure can kill things”. Read it here.
The Greens are about to find out why a Simpsons joke is so funny and the rest of us are going to be laughing for a very long time, writes Joe Hildebrand.
While Labor has retaken three of the four seats the Greens held, the party’s outgoing leader is pointing the finger at a non-existent Labor deal with the Liberals, making the Greens the updated version of Lenin’s “useful idiots”, writes Joe Hildebrand.
The Teals and Greens are not Labor fronts nor friends – they are self-interested and self-satisfied pontificating narcissists sooking and moaning about problems they have no idea how to solve, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Denial from the Coalition and its supporters ultimately led to the crippling losses in the election. There are eight lessons the Liberals must learn if they want to survive, writes Joe Hildebrand.
A small gathering of the Labor Party faithful came together for a dinner. The tone that night was grim, but the party has come a long way since then, writes Joe Hildebrand.
The writing was on the wall even before the polls opened, but while the election result is a catastrophe for the Coalition, it is a resounding win for democracy, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Any policy that hasn’t been inoculated with exposure to all possible threats will simply have zero immunity during an election campaign – and that is what happened to Peter Dutton and the Coalition, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Peter Dutton believed he was on a winning streak and nobody told him he was wrong until it was all too late. It was echo chamber politics, pure and simple, writes Joe Hildebrand.
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