Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

The Worst of the Worst: The Best of 2020. A Sense of Place Magazine, 3 January, 2021.

Guantanamo Bay and A Bigger Picture The publicity blurb for the shortly to be released book A Bigger Picture by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull makes the claim that he “stood up to Donald Trump”. Really??? But thereby hangs a tale. And a story about Australia, Turnbull, Trump, secretive refugee deals and Guantanamo Bay inmates that […]

Welcomed Everywhere: Until He Wasn’t, A Sense of Place Magazine, 20 March, 2019.

This is an extract from the upcoming book Dark Dark Policing, by veteran Australian journalist John Stapleton. The book will be published next month. They weren’t so wrong, those who had painted the world as a battle between good and evil. For everything, now, stood at a precipice. Step over the ledge. You can see […]

The Worst of the Worst: Guantanamo Bay and A Bigger Picture, A Sense of Place Magazine, 16 February, 2020.

By John Stapleton The publicity blurb for the shortly to be released book A Bigger Picture by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull makes the claim that he “stood up to Donald Trump”. Really??? But thereby hangs a tale. And a story about Australia, Turnbull, Trump, secretive refugee deals and Guantanamo Bay inmates that I as […]

The Intoxicating Fall of Malcolm Turnbull, A Sense of Place Magazine, 12 February, 2020.

By John Stapleton EVERY DOG has its day. And the most disappointing Prime Minister in Australian history certainly had his. The intoxicating fall of Malcolm Turnbull was a transfixing, delightful spectacle; a Shakespearean tragedy played out in the Antipodes. And no, the good guys did not win. There were no good guys, so collapsed the […]

The Demise of Malcolm Turnbull, The Series, A Sense of Place Magazine, 27 August, 2018.

This is the series which begins just days before the excruciating fall of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The story ends with him disgraced, at war with his own Party and dismissed by the public; in virtual exile inside inside his own wealth, destroyed by his own ambition. It is a Shakespearean yarn of the […]

Coup Capital of the World: Australia, The Demise of Malcolm Turnbull, A Sense of Place Magazine, 26 August, 2018.

Homepage By John Stapleton I am a vengeful god The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his foes and vents his wrath against his enemies. Nathum 1:2. In the end, the oligarchs who seize power are judged not by the way […]

We Come Not to Praise But to Bury, The Legacy of Malcolm Turnbull, A Sense of Place Magazine, 24 August, 2018.

By John Stapleton Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy The Coverage Malcolm Turnbull’s Day of Reckoning has arrived. He could have left with dignity ten days ago; doctors advice, spend more time with his grandchildren. But this hapless Prime Minister, with his Party Room in revolt, cannot even manage his own political death. A very bad […]

Australia’s Assault on Freedom of Speech: The Terrible Legacy of Malcolm Turnbull, A Sense of Place Magazine, 23 August, 2018.

By John Stapleton Let Slip the Dogs of War: Coverage The word “crisis” is bandied about a lot in discussing Australian politics right this minute. Nothing the present batch of oligarchs could do to manipulate, suppress or control the media has worked. Except when it comes down to warfare. The media hunt in packs, they […]

Betraying the Future: The Worst Internet in the World, The Legacy of Malcolm Turnbull, A Sense of Place Magazine, 22 August, 2018.

The First Harpoon Strikes the Flank In the petri dish of Australian politics, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull thrashes in a blood soaked sea. The first leadership spill, on Tuesday 21st August, 2018, precipitated by the powerful Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton, has left Turnbull mortally wounded. The first harpoon has hit the flank: 48–35. […]

The Demise of Malcolm Turnbull, Pearls and Irritations, 16 August, 2018.

The leadership is in play.  Diabolical polling ensures that. But how Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership devolved to the current disaster is a complicated yarn, like the man himself. So let’s begin at the beginning. Rob Hirst, drummer for Midnight Oil, recalls the future Prime Minister from the early 1970s when both were schoolboys at the elite private […]

Malcolm Turnbull’s doublespeak on encryption, The New Daily, 25 November, 2015.

By John Stapleton Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has advocated the use of encryption technology to protect privacy and circumvent the metadata laws at the same time as his government has brought in new laws so loosely worded numerous high-profile critics fear it could make even the use of smartphones or email illegal. While no one […]

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