Dennis Atkins: Yeah, right. Harold Holt is alive in China and PM knew nothing of rape scandal
Smug Scott was nowhere to be seen for most of this week. This was a change as Smug Scott has become a...
Scott Morrison unmasked: What the PM’s cowardly response to the Capitol riots reveals
About 40 years ago, the name Alistair Drysdale figured prominently in serious Liberal Party politics. As the No.2 in Malcolm Fraser’s press...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s antics show Australia is going to the polls in 2021
Scott Morrison likes to look studious in Question Time, busying himself with his papers, turning his back on Opposition leader Anthony Albanese...
Dennis Atkins: All politicians lie, but Scott Morrison’s untruths transcend the usual
All politicians lie. Some do it as easily as most of us draw breath and others struggle to avoid telling the truth...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison may scoff, but his climate change summit snub matters
While Stephen Smith was Australia’s foreign minister during the Rudd government from 2007 to 2010 he instructed his department to banish the...
Dennis Atkins: From COVID to Trump, 2020 is the year of ‘what if’ questions
What if Australia’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic had hit the marks seen in New Zealand, where things were very different. What...
Dennis Atkins: The death of a Canberra press legend who would have torn strips off Morrison
A self-described reporter with a point of view, Alan Ramsey passed away at the beginning of this week, dying in a nursing...
Thank our island continent – not our politicians – for getting on top of COVID
The snap, hard-as-nails South Australian coronavirus lockdown, now unravelled in confusion and uncertainty, looks like a case study in the fragility of...
Dennis Atkins: Making sense of Anthony Albanese’s week of serial blunders
Has Anthony Albanese had his Karl Rove moment? A seemingly minor slip during a radio interview in late 2006 sparked a series...
Dennis Atkins: After a hellish week, Morrison plays his ‘China card’
At the end of one of Scott Morrison’s worst weeks since the summer of firestorms, the Prime Minister has played what he...