Michael Taylor

The Howard Invoice By Ricky Pann False Economics, Infrastructure Deficits, Dishonest Legacy, Luddites in Digital delusion, Housing affordability and the crisis of blame and hate in political populism. I have always cons...

John Howard was a wrecker. Pity we can’t send him a bill for everything he wrecked.

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Aged care funding: Pay now, or pay later - but later always costs more Australia’s aged care system is confronting a strange paradox. Across the country, older Australians are being formally assessed as needing support – yet many must wait months before that support actu...

“Australia’s ageing population will require thoughtful, sustainable care systems in the years ahead.

That means investing wisely in the supports that keep people healthy, independent and living at home for as long as possible.” By @lachiemc64.bsky.social

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Political Futures: Revitalizing Federal Labor’s Social Housing Fortunes Time is running out for Labor to rekindle interest in commitment to its affordable housing solutions with support from the most interested state and territory governments as in 2025. Containing the mo...

“Labor inherited the LNP’s tax concessions for investment in rental housing. There is always pressure from the Murdoch press to retain these concessions even though they have contributed to the current affordability crisis in housing prices and rents.”

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Tehran and the World on Fire: the Match Bearers I. The Fire The world is burning. Not metaphorically. Not in the cautious language of diplomats and evening news anchors. Actually burning. From the Strait of Hormuz to the suburbs of Tehran, from the...

“We will remember.

We will remember who ordered the strikes.
We will remember who approved the killing of children.
We will remember who stood by and watched.
We will remember the names: Trump. Netanyahu.”

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Tony Abbott volunteers Australia for a war nobody asked us to join Former prime minister Tony Abbott has criticised the Albanese government for what he describes as Australia’s “shameful” failure to support the United States and Israel as they strike Iran. In Abbott’...

Tony Abbott volunteers Australia for a war nobody asked us to join.

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Trump, The Dealmaker’s Fatal Error PART TWO OF THREE Trump demands unconditional surrender from a nation of 90 million. Iran elects a hardline new Supreme Leader and rules out any ceasefire. The MAGA coalition fractures. What began as ...

“Watching a president announce ‘complete destruction and certain death’ for unnamed groups of people and post this on a social media platform he owns, it becomes genuinely difficult to locate a more clinically precise description.

Sociopath.”

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The Great Reclamation: How Ordinary Australians Take Back the Commons On Labour Day 2026, a Nobel Prize, a Doughnut, and a kitchen table show us how ordinary Australians reclaim what has been taken – and why Labour Day is not a holiday. It’s a template. [...]

It’s way past the time we applied the Fair Go Test to politicians and the 1%.

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Why AI Warfare Regulation is Urgent for Democracy By Denis Hay   Description AI warfare regulation is urgently needed. Discover how autonomous weapons and defence AI contracts are reshaping global security. Introduction – The Hidden AI Arms Race Arti...

“As a nation with dollar sovereignty, Australia can direct public money toward peaceful technological innovation rather than escalating arms competition.”

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Back on its heels, will Israel nuke Iran? By Walt Zlotow   Trump’s deranged war on Iran is spiraling out of control. US bases are being pounded, neutralizing their ability to monitor, much less shoot down Iranian drones and missiles. But Iran...

He wouldn’t, would he?

I know he’s evil, but…

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Trump’s Team at War With Itself PART ONE OF TWO Operation Epic Fury is not just a war on Iran. It is a war inside the administration that launched it – fought across three continents before the first bomb fell on [...]

“An inept grifter, imposter and inveterate liar, the epitome of the actor in bad faith, Trumpt the man-child is, fittingly, perhaps, keeper of the nuclear codes, the increasingly senescent, narcopletpic, narcissicist who has what it takes to lead us all into oblivion.”

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Two Daiquiris at the Floridita and a Lesson America Never Learned By James Moore “There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” (Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls). I had just walked out the [...]

“An attack on Cuba, following an attack on Iran, would announce to every government in the Western Hemisphere and beyond that no country within the imagined American sphere is safe from the exercise of American military preference.”

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'Rude, arrogant and entitled’: ex-Prince Andrew’s arrest is the inevitable conclusion to a sordid royal tale of privilege and protection By Jenny Hocking The arrest of ex-Prince Andrew over alleged misconduct is not an isolated scandal but the product of a system that shields the royal family from scrutiny. Without transparency and acc...

“The arrest of ex-Prince Andrew over alleged misconduct is not an isolated scandal but the product of a system that shields the royal family from scrutiny. Without transparency and accountability, privilege can become a pathway to abuse of power.”

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The Perfect Storm: How the Far-Right Surge and Labor's Silence are Reshaping Australia This is a topic that cuts to the heart of where Australia finds itself in early 2026. Based on the current political landscape, here is an opinion piece on the two dominant forces shaping our [...]

The Australian political landscape is being squeezed by a powerful vice.

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The Psychopathocracy The Psychopathocracy: How Congress Surrendered, Corporations Took Control, and the United States Became an Authoritarian State Introduction: The End of a Republic On the eve of America’s 250th anniver...

How gutless are the Republicans? They sit back and do nothing about this dangerous clown.

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Still no China invasion despite ‘red alert’ predictions War Powers Reform Media Release Today marks three years since a widely criticised media series predicted Australia would be at war with China within three years. The Red Alert series was published by ...

“Rarely does a day go by without a news article featuring a so called expert, demonising our largest trading partner and demanding that Australia spends billions more on the military.”

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How the Impact of Neoliberalism on Australia Is Damaging Society By Denis Hay   Description How the impact of neoliberalism on Australia is increasing inequality, economic stress and social anxiety while pushing society toward the US model. Introduction – A Warning...

“For much of the 20th century, Aus built a reputation as one of the most stable societies in the world. Secure jobs and affordable housing created the expectation that each generation would live better than the last.

Today, that confidence is fading.”

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Pulling the Thread: How Everything That’s Overwhelming Us Right Now is Connected From bombed oil fields to your grocery data to a cringe-worthy singing MP in Canberra – the single logic behind our most alarming news stories, and why seeing it clearly is the first act of [...]

“What do a US-Israeli airstrike on Iran, a farmer who cannot fix their own tractor, your Netflix subscription, a singing stunt in federal parliament, and the reason I stopped using ChatGPT have in common?

More than you think.”

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It’s About Children and Education: Melania Trump at the UN Security Council Former British Conservative politician and current pundit Rory Stewart thought it might have been a case of artificial intelligence. Many would have agreed. The US First Lady, Melania Trump, had chanc...

How hypocritical - sick even - to talk about the welfare of children while Hubby Trump was complicit in the killing of 150+ schoolchildren in Iran.

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Dear Canada, can you please hurry up and annex the USA as your 11th province.

When will the United States and Israel acknowledge the full extent of damage to U.S. facilities and Israeli targets instead of downplaying or censoring it? By Walt Zlotow U.S. Middle East bases are being pounded by Iranian drones and missiles. So is Israel. Yet virtually none of this massive damage, signaling major failure of the US-Israeli war on Iran, ...

“U.S. Middle East bases are being pounded by Iranian drones and missiles. So is Israel.

Yet virtually none of this massive damage is being shown to the American public which overwhelmingly opposes this senseless, self-destructive war.”

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Double Tap? Double Depravity Truth is the first casualty of war, of course but there is one term in the lexicon of modern warfare, a liar’s bible, an ever-expanding dictionary of deception, a corporate-speak all set up to launder...

“Now for the question that should be burning a hole through every front page in this country, and is not: where is Australia in all of this?

The answer, which our government would prefer you not dwell on, is that we are in it up to our necks.”

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I’m disappointed in my old uni. (A BA and a BA (Honours) from UniSA).

That’s a damn fine question.

Are the wheels coming off the Trump regime? By Jim McIntosh Kristi Noem, Trump’s Homeland Security bimbo-in-charge, has apparently been removed from that position to become Special Envoy for upside-down dogs or something or other, while the war...

“The fact that there are still Americans prepared to support this obese, malignant, malodorous bag of rectal gas is testament to the outright stupidity of Americans writ-large.”

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Loony Bin Rationales: The Continuing War on Iran Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal pre-emptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land...

“Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal pre-emptive war that not only lacks legitimacy but should land its perpetrators in the docks of the International Criminal Court.”

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Good grief… Jesus freaks taking over military indoctrination By Walt Zlotow As a non-theist I both respect freedom of religion and demand separation of church and state. Most violations of the latter concern relatively minor infractions such as school prayer or...

“While Christian nationalism has simmered on the back burner of the military for decades, under fanatical Christian Nationalist and War Secretary Pete Hegseth, it’s now official US military policy.”

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The Mushroom Treatment: A Government That Treats You With Contempt Cannot Be Trusted The Albanese government gives us the mushroom treatment. Keeps us all in the dark and feeds us BS. This week, our small target federal government gave a bravura homage to John Cage. While a US-Israeli...

“The Albanese government is giving us the mushroom treatment.”

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“They are toast” “They are toast”: A Critical Analysis of Pete Hegseth’s Press Conference and the Dangerous Rhetoric of Endless War Introduction: The Performance On 4 March 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth st...

“On 4 March 2026, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon podium and delivered what can only be described as a performance.”

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‘A Culture of Fear’: Adelaide University Under Fire for Cancelling Event with UN Expert Francesca Albanese By Helen Reynolds   The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freed...

“The decision by Adelaide University to withdraw a venue booking for an event featuring a leading United Nations human rights expert has ignited a fierce debate about academic freedom and censorship in South Australia.”

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Inflated Calamities: Security Threats to Anthony Albanese With the ruling classes shown to be fickle, contemptible and unreliable in fulfilling their obligations to society, much of this confirmed by the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the United Sta...

Was this an exaggerated security threat to fool the public?

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