Luke Walladge

A brief history of absolute nonsense

8 February 2021 4:00 am

Robert W Welch Jr was, shall we say, an interesting bloke. You might think that a chap who made a…

Techtonics: Labor doesn’t even understand why it loses

8 November 2019 5:00 am

This is the second in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…

Techtonics: why the party of the workers has a problem with working people – and why it matters

30 October 2019 12:02 pm

This is the first in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…

As a survivor of child sexual abuse, I just feel sad

26 February 2019 2:41 pm

As a survivor of child sexual abuse, abuse that occurred within a religious institution supported by Australian churches, the verdict…

Time to legalise mother’s other little helpers

23 January 2019 1:36 pm

One really must wonder what they smoke up there in New South Wales. The State Government, fresh off wondering whether…

No ticket, no start

16 October 2017 4:57 pm

What is the point of a Liberal government? Tomorrow the New South Wales parliament will debate the Fair Trading Amendment…

My boyfriend’s back…

22 May 2017 5:52 pm

Lock up your left-wing activist sisters; Julian Assange is back in town. In a triumph for accused rapists everywhere, the…

It was the Hanson wot won it

13 March 2017 1:15 pm

So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…

Don’t tell the Greens, but I’ve been to Israel

25 November 2016 7:19 am

Don’t tell the Greens, but I’ve gone to Israel. After possibly the best midnight flight to Jerusalem since Mohammed’s horse…

Kimberley Kitching and The Age of unreason

17 October 2016 10:49 am

If you’re lucky enough to live in Melbourne, you may be unlucky enough to occasionally read The Age. While people…

A conservative Bill for marriage equality

10 October 2016 7:24 am

Edmund Burke seems to have gone out of fashion a bit, and as a man who still listens to Oasis…

Stephen Conroy: the last of the Mohicans

16 September 2016 2:05 pm

Writing the first draft of history, as journalists and columnists are conceited enough to imagine that we do, is a…

The chosen yuan: from Baghdad Bill to Beijing Bob

12 September 2016 7:19 am

You’ve got to feel for poor old Sam Dastaryi, dragged through the stocks last week for a spot of unusual…