Amy Remeikis

Brisbane

Federal Political Reporter at The Guardian Australia

Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her "Closet capitalist" @amyremeikis.bsky.social 🇱🇹🇦🇺 @pyjamapolitics [email protected]

Articles

If events around the world are sending you insane, you're not alone

1 week ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

If you feel like you are going a little insane at the moment, you’re not alone. Social media screens show the breakdown – an ad for something you don’t need, a cat video, aid workers talking about the devastation in Gaza and the lack of basic necessities, including infant formula.
Where does ‘America first’ leave Australia?

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

Trump’s America does not care about Australia. The review into AUKUS that has sent the national security apparatus into meltdown is nothing but a shakedown from a bully intent on shaking down the world for his own mercurial interests. A smart government would take the opportunity to get out. To actually put Australia first. But history tells us that is not the Australian way.
The real issues go on as we stare at the Trump-Musk trash fire

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

For people who watch politics as entertainment, waking up on Friday was like Christmas, your birthday and the time your enemy was publicly humiliated all at once.
Coalition’s on-again, off-again ‘situationship’ has even those closest baffled

3 weeks ago | australiainstitute.org.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. Because, 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.
Not climate or housing – no, our moral outrage is saved for taxing the rich | The New Daily

1 month 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.
Coalition's 'situationship' has even those closest baffled

1 month 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.
Why this all-too predictable divorce is really a big question for Labor

1 month 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.
The PM's 'progressive patriotism' is a worthy ideal, if he backs it up

1 month 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.
Sussan Ley is yet to make her mark in 24 years in politics

1 month 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.
Liberal party is lost in the wilderness of irrelevancy

1 month ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Amy Remeikis

Winners have parties. Losers have meetings. And there have been a lot of meetings in Canberra this week. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, than we are in for another rough three years. There are always set pieces to election wash-ups. Finger pointing. Re-writing of history. People who were silent suddenly expressing ‘long held’ concerns. Everyone knew all along what was happening, but can only express it once the votes are counted.