Mathew James

Sep 12, 2024 | thebigsmoke.com.au | Matthew Reddin |Deb Turney |Mathew James

For whom should you vote in this weekend’s NSW election? More importantly, did you know there’s an election in NSW this weekend? For whom should you vote in this weekend’s election? Here’s a more pertinent question: Did you know there was an election this weekend? The fact is that if you live in NSW, there is. Like Victoria, it’s compulsory.

Aug 27, 2024 | thebigsmoke.com.au | Matthew Reddin |Deb Turney |Mathew James |Derryn Hinch

Labor‘s “anti-CFMEU” bill places all construction branches of the union into administration – even those not implicated in any wrongdoing. Workers of the world, unite! Or not; dealer’s choice. The Albanese government, who you may have heard about, have passed what Green Left calls a “draconian anti-Construction Forestry Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) bill” through the House of Representatives.

Jul 16, 2024 | thebigsmoke.com.au | Mathew James |Stephen Hunter |Andrew C. Wicks |John Golden

The memification and apathy over the weekend’s shooting speaks loudest to this political malaise we entered before Trump even took office. Right now, the world is asking questions about the assassination of Donald Trump. Did the shooter have nazi affiliations? Maybe. Will the pointy end of the Republican movement being shot at by an AR-15 cause conservatives to consider gun restrictions? Probably not. Is it the first political assassination attempt to be memed? Almost certainly.

Jul 16, 2024 | thebigsmoke.com.au | Mathew James |Stephen Hunter |Andrew C. Wicks |John Golden

The memification and apathy over the weekend’s shooting speaks loudest to this political malaise we entered before Trump even took office. Right now, the world is asking questions about the assassination of Donald Trump. Did the shooter have nazi affiliations? Maybe. Will the pointy end of the Republican movement being shot at by an AR-15 cause conservatives to consider gun restrictions? Probably not. Is it the first political assassination attempt to be memed? Almost certainly.

Jun 27, 2024 | thebigsmoke.com.au | Mathew James

Julian Assange coming home marks not the dawn of a new day, but the continuation of a dark night we entered when he walked into that embassy. Today we sit in a previously unforeseen future, a day that Julian Assange’s ardent supporters and harshest critics never thought they’d see: the Wikileaks founder is free. He’s no longer holed up in a London embassy, nor is he kept in the solitary darkness of Belmarsh prison, but on an oversized island in the Pacific: his homeland, Australia.