Amy Remeikis

2 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

With everything happening in the world, it is probably easy to miss what is apparently becoming one of the Greatest Issues Of Our Time. It’s not addressing the housing affordability crisis, which has shown that rental stress is at record highs, social housing doesn’t come close to meeting demand, and safe and affordable housing is becoming a luxury.

2 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

If anyone knows what is going on in the National party, could you please stand up? Interested parties in the Nationals would love to know. Becausem after blowing up the show on Tuesday with his own Groucho Marx “principles” (“those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others”), David Littleproud has announced that the Coalition’s divorce is on hold. In modern parlance, the Coalition has been reduced to a situationship.

2 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

Once the schadenfreude settles (and we all need a little bit of a giggle right now) there are some very serious questions to be asked about the Coalition’s split. And they all involve the actual elephant in the room – the Labor government. Will Labor rehabilitate the Liberal Party? Or will it actually take the path voters mapped out for it at the last election to actually create change for the better. The split between the Liberals and the Nationals was obvious to anyone paying attention.

3 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present, George Orwell wrote in 1940. Orwell was writing about the Great War, at the beginning of what became World War II and the intersection of patriotism and conservatism, which he was ardently against. “Patriotism has nothing to do with conservatism,” he argued. “It is devotion to something that is changing but is felt to be mystically the same, like the devotion of the ex-White Bolshevik to Russia.

3 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

Sussan Ley has always been searching for a narrative. One of the first things she will tell you in any social situation is that she used to be a punk. She rolls it out the way your eccentric aunt might drop in she once dated Robert Mugabe over family lunch. “Well you know I used to be a punk,” Ley will start before telling you about her spiky purple hair, dog collar and nose piercing, hoping someone will say they don’t believe it.