Paul Bongiorno
PM’s Press Club address now a repackaging exercise from a very damaged salesman
Scott Morrison’s urgent task to press the reset button at Wednesday’s National Press Club address has been reduced to a repackaging exercise...
Mid-year financial check has government’s marketing falling short
The success of any marketing depends on the ability of the salesperson to be believed, and on that score Scott Morrison this...
Paul Bongiorno: How Official Secrets hides our spying nation’s dirty deeds
On Thursday, the Australian government’s protracted persecution of whistleblower lawyer Bernard Collaery over a spy case is listed for another one-day hearing...
Hanging tough on sick refugees goes against the gain
Scott Morrison is pushing ahead with his attempt to repeal the medevac law that gives doctors the major role in transferring sick...
Bankrupt arguments expose the government’s bare-knuckle politics
Just when the Morrison government was planning to end its miraculous year on a high with its union-busting bill flying through Parliament,...
Australia all at sea with China on human rights
China’s human rights record is appalling, but then again Australia’s isn’t too flash either. You wouldn’t think so if you took as...
Where there’s smoke, there are lies: Bushfires a sign of a catastrophic political reckoning
A state of emergency and an unprecedented warning of catastrophic fires threatening the entire Sydney basin and pretty well the rest of...
Paul Bongiorno: Time to commission transformative change
Yet another major royal commission is now under way in Australia, in itself testimony to the complete lack of trust the country...
Paul Bongiorno: The aged care sector is dying for urgent action
After 10 months of harrowing evidence and almost 7000 submissions, the Royal Commission into Aged Care has already confirmed the community’s worst...
Paul Bongiorno: Australia is on a slippery slope to tyranny
Like the frog in the slowly heating pot, Australia’s major media organisations have belatedly realised they are in a most uncomfortable fix....