Dennis Atkins
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison will leave a legacy of pork-barrelling without consequence
A perfectly formed example of just how corrupted our public administration has become occurred on Thursday near the bridge crossing the Shoalhaven...
Dennis Atkins: As ‘spinner in chief’, Scott Morrison dusts his deviousness with platitudes and cheap glitter
Man does job. That’s the review Scott Morrison should have been given for his underwhelming speech paraded as a launch of the...
Dennis Atkins: Anthony Albanese could face a leadership eruption at any time
On Thursday Scott Morrison was signalling his virtue while the Labor Party was letting its freak flag fly. Morrison was at the...
What’s in it for me? That’s our ‘purely transactional’ PM’s one and only guiding principle
Nick Xenophon, one time Senate rebel and South Australian political outlier, has a Scott Morrison anecdote that hits the bullseye in one...
Why Morrison will go back to the future to solve issue of Aussies stranded overseas
Scott Morrison’s government faces a swirling storm of anger and dissent about repatriating the estimated 40,000 Australians overseas who are desperate to...
Scott Morrison unmasked: What the PM’s cowardly response to the Capitol riots reveals
About 40 years ago, the name Alistair Drysdale figured prominently in serious Liberal Party politics. As the No.2 in Malcolm Fraser’s press...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison’s antics show Australia is going to the polls in 2021
Scott Morrison likes to look studious in Question Time, busying himself with his papers, turning his back on Opposition leader Anthony Albanese...
Dennis Atkins: Simple marketing slogan shelters PM Scott Morrison from harm
Team Australia. It’s such a simple, seemingly inoffensive little slogan from the marketing guys that we hardly noticed it was a theme...
Dennis Atkins: All politicians lie, but Scott Morrison’s untruths transcend the usual
All politicians lie. Some do it as easily as most of us draw breath and others struggle to avoid telling the truth...
Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison may scoff, but his climate change summit snub matters
While Stephen Smith was Australia’s foreign minister during the Rudd government from 2007 to 2010 he instructed his department to banish the...