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Tony Abbott’s Salad Recipe, And Other Things We Didn’t Learn From 60 Minutes
In 2012, someone in the volcano in which the Liberal Party strategists meet decided that Tony Abbott’s image needed rehabilitating. People saw the Opposition Leader as an old-world social conservative,...
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Follow The Spill: A Junkee Liveblog
UPDATE, 5pm: Party’s over. – READERS: This page is in more need of refreshing than someone who’s hankering for a cooool iced tea. By which I mean refresh the page a lot. IN SUMMARY Simon Crean calls a...
View ArticleThe Media’s Softening Of Tony Abbott: Their Mouths Are Moving, But Nothing’s...
A little while ago, someone over at The Australian decided it would be a good idea to publish little online videos of columnists explaining the content of their columns. It is unclear precisely for...
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So Tony Abbott’s Director Of Policy Was Just Demoted For Making Violent Threats
At a big Qantas gala last night, Dr Mark Roberts, Tony Abbott’s director of policy, told Andrew Penfold, head of The Indigenous Education Foundation, that once they came to power, the Liberals would...
View ArticleHold The Phones, Mad Man Millionaire Clive Palmer Just Announced He’s Running...
Oh, okay that sounds – wait, what? Yep. Last night Clive Palmer went on Lateline to announce that he’d formed (or reformed) the United Australia Party. Today, at a press conference in Brisbane, he...
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Why ‘Headless Chooks’ Just Might Be The Most Gloriously Stupid Political Ad...
Let’s get something out of the way up front. The most immediate – but by no means biggest – problem with the Coalition’s latest campaign advertisement, The Headless Chooks in: The Gillard Experiment,...
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The Ten Most Wonderful Things Committed To Hansard As A Result Of The Skywhale
When the ACT Legislative Assembly sat down to argue about a gigantic inflatable whale with tits, it was always going to be a great day for democracy. The whale was designed by Canberra-bred artist...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About How We Talk About Labor
It’s time to admit it. In September we are going to see the Government lose an election with the kind of floundering petulance so rarely witnessed outside of primary school swimming carnivals. It is...
View ArticleDear Howard Sattler,
Howard, By now you’ll have had some time to reflect on your interview with the Prime Minister this morning, and the subsequent fallout. If I know you, Howard — and I think I do — you’ll be wondering in...
View ArticleFollow The Spill (Again): A Junkee Liveblog
READERS: This page is in more need of refreshing than someone who’s hankering for a cooool iced tea. By which I mean refresh the page a lot. - Strap in, friends – what a day to be alive. Just quickly,...
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What I Learned About Humans While Pretending To Fight Zombies
We’re uncovering one-of-a-kind places, people and experiences thanks to ORGNL.TV – a new content hub by Stolichnaya Premium Vodka. - There are seven of us, including me. We’ve been sent to pick up a...
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Casting The Julia Gillard Docudrama
So there’s going to be a feature-length television drama centred around the Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard, and Rachel Griffiths has signed on to play the PM. Based on Kerry-Anne Walsh’s The...
View ArticleThe Australian Would Like You To Get Off Its Goddamn Lawn
Today, The Australian published the journalistic equivalent of a clenched fist being shaken at skateboard. You can read it here. It’s got no byline, which is fitting because you get the sense that this...
View ArticleMiranda Devine’s Latest Column Is Titled ‘NRL Bosses Are Totally Gay’. It...
Do you think that News Corp columnist Miranda Devine ever considers in her quieter moments, maybe in the dead of the night when all are asleep and the house is settling, that she might, maybe possibly,...
View ArticleSome (But Not All) Questions I’d Like Answered After Viewing ‘SPECTRE’
This article is comprised of more questions than answers, but some of those questions contain spoilers. – In Mexico, Bond changes from his spooky skeleton suit into his non-skeleton suit in about three...
View ArticleJunkee Investigates: What Crime Did Joe From Paul Kelly’s ‘How To Make Gravy’...
Christmas is upon us, which means it’s time to listen ceaselessly to Australia’s own Christmas carol, ‘How To Make Gravy’. The 1996 Paul Kelly folk-song doesn’t concern itself with Santa, or mistletoe...
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Everything That’s Wrong With 2019, As Explained By Breakfast TV
One of the first jobs I had in TV was for a satirical news program, watching all of the breakfast TV shows and taking notes. Every day I would watch each of Australia’s four breakfast TV offerings...
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