16 April

It's definitely true that ScoMo treated Christine Holgate disgracefully. But not because of her gender. Because she opposed his secret plan to privatise Australia Post, flushed out this week, in a report from Boston Consulting. So she had to go. The watches gave him an excuse. Regulatory capture, modern conservative parties ignore everything that gets us wound up, and just continue on their way dismantling the public sphere, removing all regulation and taxes. Not for their donors, the parties are now the donors. That's what regulatory capture means, the donors captured our regulatory system.