Patrick Marlborough, Author at Crikey

‘This protest is now a public funeral’: Disability ‘sicko’ activists picket Shorten’s office over NDIS

Patrick Marlborough — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:24:21 +0000

'I can’t go on doing this. I can’t fill out any more forms. I can’t keep having to prove that I’m sick, that I need help.'

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Shorten teaming up with Hanson on the NDIS tacitly endorses her views of disability

Patrick Marlborough — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 02:09:03 +0000

Last week Bill Shorten stood beside the One Nation leader to hammer home the importance of NDIS reform. But what sort of message does this send to disabled people?

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The L in ALP stands for ‘Landlord’

Patrick Marlborough — Fri, 17 May 2024 04:01:16 +0000

When the prime minister evicted his pesky tenant, he finally showed he was one of us! A vilified, villainised and vasectomised landlord!

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Perth’s ‘rancid’ Yagan Square is a monolith to the mining booms’ missed opportunities

Patrick Marlborough — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:19:41 +0000

The mining boom brought the promise of 'rejuvenation' and 'reimagination' to the WA capital. The reality turned out a little different.

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The book world doesn’t know what to do with all these heightened sensitivities

Patrick Marlborough — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:47:49 +0000

The Australian literature world is torn between supporting marginalised, radical voices and hiding behind the industry's frictionless gentry.

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In Western Australia, it’s too damn hot, I tellsya! I’m going troppo!

Patrick Marlborough — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:52:27 +0000

Mining megacorps have evisercated my fair state for untold billions. Now we're baking in the job's final, sweltering days.

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Zen and the very mindful art of Newspoll maintenance

Patrick Marlborough — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:40:58 +0000

Patience is a virtue and PM Anthony Albanese is doing his best to instill it into the hearts and lives of Australians.

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Do not forget Australian leaders’ complicity in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza

Patrick Marlborough — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:49:41 +0000

Albanese's active participation in the barbarism inflicted upon Gaza is sadly, scarily reminiscent of the Iraqi blood on John Howard's hands.

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The ALP, Israel and the cost of platitudes

Patrick Marlborough — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:26:18 +0000

As protests, outrage and horror ripple the world over, one is left wondering whether Labor's mask of performative centrism is worth maintaining.

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The next Pezzullo will be harder to spot — and harder still to cut out

Patrick Marlborough — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:47:26 +0000

After decades of rot and stagnancy, these are the men politics gives us: a class of shadow-politician vital to Canberra's irradiated ecosystem.

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