Amy Remeikis

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The Howard Effect: In the Shadows of the Australian Dream It’s just over two years into his first term and John Howard is taking the country to another election. In that short time he has seized the mantle of economic credibility away from Labor and rewritte...

Th final part of our three part series featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social on John Howard’s legacy is out today. Today’s focus: the culture wars, asylum seekers and racial division. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Red Hill/Deakin

I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down

Lol - I didn't know that. And around and around we go. (K-Mart is pretty fancy these days though)

Fun fact - you don't need any! It's a leadership decision.

Love me some Home Brand. I'm running with Half-off Howard and Cut-price Costello in the meantime

(Half-off Howard and Cut-Price Costello seem apt for Taylor and Wilson. The Liberals have the leadership they deserve 🙃)

Cut-price Costello Tim Wilson on Sky just now: "It’s very clear to me that when there’s an increase in petrol prices, Jim Chalmers collects more excise revenue."
Excise is not based on price changes. It's indexed twice a year in line with inflation.

You are not the only one. I had to triple check a lot of the research because I couldn't believe

Cut-price Howard just a bit clueless in general, really

Look - Canberra is more expensive in general than other jurisdictions, but choosing to have your 'cost of living crisis press conference' in one of the most expensive suburbs in Canberra,where the median house price is $2.1m and luxury cars are parked all around you is maybe not the greatest optics

It is remarkable how quickly the climate failures of COVID and the 2022 energy crises have been forgotten. Weak centrist hand-wringing and fossil fuel corruption caused additional harm on top of the cost of war and disease. Time to stop repeating this

www.earthsystemgovernance.org/publication/...

Expanse: The Nannup Four: Episode 1 The People In The Blue House When three adults and a child disappear without a trace from the isolated bush community of Nannup in 2007, it sparks disturbing theories. What was happening in the little blue house? Presented by Dom...

The team behind Expanse are some of the best story tellers in Australia (and largely unsung). Can already tell this one is going to break my heart. (Available on iview with footage as well as a podcast) iview.abc.net.au/video/NS2626...

The people that run our media have dedicated CBD carparks. PT is something you do for fun in Japan.

The Howard Effect: Australia’s Sliding Doors Moment It was the second of March 1996. After 13 years of Labor in power, Paul Keating’s government had been defeated in a landslide, closing the door on the Hawke-Keating era and opening another on a new po...

First part of our three part series featuring @amyremeikis.bsky.social on John Howard’s legacy is out today. 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/the...

The greatest gift anyone could ever give me was helping this little book beat Tony Abbott’s myth making of Australia. Thank you 😭

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The only reason Temu Trump took hold was because it rang true. The lesson there, for all leaders, would be to not try and emulate someone else - voters see through you.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has followed through with his threat to table the coalition’s internal report into its disastrous showing in the 2025 election. Downloadable as a PDF from here.
live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-... #auspol

The team did a great job of this, making sense of my over caffeinated, deregulated rants. Listen for them x

Aussie urged to claim $475 million payout with deadline days away Hundreds of thousands of Aussies will lose out on compensation of between $1,000 and $50,000 if they miss this deadline.

Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...

'Disgusted': NSW government grants approval to controversial mine The NSW government grants a six-year extension to a controversial coal mine in the Hunter Valley.

The NSW government has granted a six-year extension to the controversial Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley. The operation has been plagued with problems including insolvency, mass redundancies and investigations into governance issues.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Insanity.

New article from me in the New Statesman on how Gorton and Denton showed that the more people get to know Reform, the more they see that they're a bunch of internet-damaged freaks.

That is mentioned in the book, yes x

Albanese Supported An Illegal War With No Clear Objective or End. It's A Grim New Low the Albanese government didn’t even know the reason for the war, let alone whether it was unlawful – but they supported it anyway.

It’s not just an illegal war. That would be bad enough.

Today, the Albanese government clearly admitted they gave our support to a war, without even knowing why it was launched.

From us:

www.lamestream.com.au/albanese-sup...

Copy of letter sent by a representative of Shell suggesting that ABARE examine what addressing climate change would mean for "Australia's exports of coal and natural gas".

From these early encounters with BHP Petroleum and Shell, ABARE appeared to adopt the industry-preferred approach to climate change wholesale. Across many hundreds of pages reviewed by @drilledmedia.bsky.social, the agency do not appear to challenge this framing, or approach at any time.

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I don’t think John Howard would have given bipartisan support to a Kim Beazley government if positions were swapped, or that a second term John Howard would have done the same reforms.