En Passant

Batter down the richest door Mateship sailed, soiled, The myth of men, Of outback fuckers In a world of cities And out of luckers The equality of fools Of shared nothing The solidarity of tools Honed on the loneliness Of space The great white plains That exist in heads alone Explain too much And so […]

The 2017 Rich List is out and no amount of “philanthropy” from those who pay little or no tax can disguise Australia’s disproportionate wealth divisions, I write in Independent Australia.  

She rises the moon   Every month God bleeds His needs, unmanned Her deeds, at hand The intersex of love Is caught, Between the two   This She knew And wild walked the side Until His feet bled, Well, heeled Between the end And the felt Stood potential Drained to gain Renewed the fame Again, […]

The future of journalism and democracy lies in news and analysis that reflects the interests of ordinary people, I write in Independent Australia.

Unlike the Abbott/Hockey sledgehammer approach, this Turnbull/Morrison 2017 Budget is still cutting off our arms and legs but anaesthetising us first, says John Passant in Independent Australia.

What this Budget does for: (a) the environment – nothing (b) jobs – nothing (c) falling real wages – nothing (d) job insecurity – nothing (e) homelessness – nothing (f) housing affordability – nothing (g) poverty – nothing

Barbie Robinson interviewed me about my book of poetry, Songs for the Band Unformed. It will be played on WriteOn on ArtSound this Wednesday 10 May between 3.30 and 4 pm. You can listen online to it here then.

The racist ad is part of Labor’s well worked out and deliberate Trump strategy. The Liberal Party has disguised racism in its turn to ‘Australian’ values; the Labor Party has disguised racism in its lies about Australian jobs.

  Malcolm Turnbull’s trip to shake the hand of Donald Trump has diminished the prime minister and is degrading for Australia, writes ​John Passant in Independent Australia.