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To make sense of the world, what you need is a narrative. A narrative puts everything in an historical context, with logical progress. Cause and effect. Obviously, the "official narrative"

This is Erika Thompson, the @DFAT staffer who organised for Alexander Downer to have drinks in London with George Papadolous. Erika has just been promoted to Australian Ambassador to Colombia.

Julian Assange would have more govt/public support if he was British. He would have more legal rights if he was a US citizen. But he's only an Australian, and his

CIA boss Allen Dulles was sacked by JFK in 1961 after the Bay Of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy said he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces & scatter

OK let's get real about the #PalaceLetters. Here's a thread that provides critical historical context, which media #auspol commentators today are deliberately ignoring... President Richard Nixon told Marshall Green -

Another appalling @RealDonaldTrump presser. He says he hasn’t seen a recent study that said coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine had higher death rates. Why not? Surely SOMEBODY around him should be

QUIZ TIME! In what year did the following UK media story appear? "Informal discussions have already taken place between US and Swedish officials over the possibility of the WikiLeaks founder