Bob Ellis

Articles written by Bob Ellis (231)

• 18 May 2016 | On turning forty
• 26 March 2016 | Desperate times for Australian literary legend Bob Ellis
• 14 March 2016 | The old Fairfax #Ipsos poll trick
• 9 March 2016 | Not even Murdoch's magic can get Turnbull above 50-50
• 29 February 2016 | The silence of the polls
• 15 February 2016 | Antonin Scalia: The damage done
• 1 February 2016 | The Morrison/Turnbull parallel
• 27 January 2016 | Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott — the fundamentalist preacher
• 23 January 2016 | Trump observed
• 20 January 2016 | Turnbull's dilemma
• 18 January 2016 | Obama's open hands
• 30 December 2015 | Now the bad news: Brough luck, Malcolm
• 13 December 2015 | Turnbull, Shorten and the next election
• 11 December 2015 | Seven days: The beginning of the end for Turnbull
• 4 December 2015 | All the Prime Minister's men
• 30 November 2015 | Turnbull, dwindling
• 20 November 2015 | If you were Assad
• 18 November 2015 | Abbott's insane jihad
• 13 November 2015 | Dutton descends further into madness with his 'renditions'
• 11 November 2015 | The 'bright fool': Turnbull stuffing up again
• 10 November 2015 | Biased TURC, slimy Murdoch and the Shorten exculpation
• 9 November 2015 | Turnbull coming unstuck
• 4 November 2015 | Dutton the merciful
• 30 October 2015 | #Malfunction Mal: Stuffing up again
• 29 October 2015 | Malcolm's latter day Godwin Grech moment
• 19 October 2015 | The end of incompetence: Dutton's last days
• 18 October 2015 | Malcolm Turnbull on Abyan's journey
• 17 October 2015 | The pregnant Nauru rape victim and the criminal inhumanity of Peter Dutton
• 16 October 2015 | A note on class war
• 13 October 2015 | Steven Ciobo and 'cold-blooded murder'
• 10 October 2015 | The 'radicalisation' panic: Counting the cost
• 6 October 2015 | Nauru manoeuvres
• 1 October 2015 | A laughing stock: Julie Bishop at the UN
• 29 September 2015 | Crime and punishment, the Liberal Party way
• 27 September 2015 | The Turnbull Government’s first week
• 19 September 2015 | Morrison Futures: Going, going ...
• 11 September 2015 | Abbott's Road to Damascus
• 6 September 2015 | Abbott’s act of kamikaze
• 3 September 2015 | Managing the stench of the growing Abbottaroma
• 20 August 2015 | Dyson's Choice
• 20 July 2015 | Bronwyn Bishop and the Valkyrie Winter
• 16 July 2015 | A tale of Two Speakers: Slippery Pete and Chopper Bishop
• 13 July 2015 | Blowin’ in the wind
• 8 July 2015 | The Meaning Of ‘Terrorism’
• 5 July 2015 | Tony Abbott and Zaky Mallah: The story so far
• 4 July 2015 | Abbott & Co. employ Karl Rove tactics over Q&A and Shorten
• 27 June 2015 | The Abbott gang's damaging war on the ABC
• 20 June 2015 | Turnbull, Abbott and the Pope
• 15 June 2015 | Tony Abbott and 'the lesser breeds'
• 10 June 2015 | The idiocy of Joe Hockey
• 4 June 2015 | More arguments against the Dutton plan
• 29 May 2015 | The Brandis/Monis letters: The shakedown
• 27 May 2015 | Tony Abbott: A question of incompetence
• 23 May 2015 | The perfect storm consuming PM Abbott
• 18 May 2015 | Today’s Ipsos and Newspoll
• 17 May 2015 | Barmy Barnaby chases away Depp's dogs and Hollywood dollars
• 15 May 2015 | Coalition boobs' war on terriers kills Abbott's early election option
• 6 May 2015 | Coles, Woolworths, slavery and the global free market outsourcing racket
• 2 May 2015 | Abbott tells Australians to get over Sukumaran and Chan
• 29 April 2015 | Bob Ellis: Notes on the murders of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
• 24 April 2015 | Bob Ellis: Questions for Deporter Dutton
• 21 April 2015 | The Abbott Government's big lies
• 12 April 2015 | Rape in the South Pacific
• 31 March 2015 | Air crash porn
• 23 March 2015 | Bob Ellis: Malcolm Fraser's moral pilgrimage
• 17 March 2015 | Baird on the wire: Why no-one likes privatisation
• 16 March 2015 | Tony Abbott and the condemned terrorists
• 10 March 2015 | Bob Ellis: Abbott's tipping point
• 1 March 2015 | Bob Ellis: Requiem for a loaded dog
• 27 February 2015 | Subscribe to IA — Australia's samizdat
• 26 February 2015 | Shooting the messenger — forgetting the children
• 14 February 2015 | Tony Abbott: The Termination
• 6 February 2015 | The Queensland 'shock': Viva Gary Morgan and down with corrupt polls
• 29 January 2015 | Newman and Abbott: Parallel lives
• 25 January 2015 | Crazy Campbell's Queensland chances
• 19 January 2015 | The inhumanity of Manus
• 11 January 2015 | The secrets and lies of the Lindt Cafe
• 7 January 2015 | Here we Joh again! Campbell Newman's sneaky gamble
• 6 January 2015 | Abbott in Iraq
• 18 December 2014 | The secrets of the Lindt Cafe
• 16 December 2014 | Sydney siege tragedy: What should be talked about
• 12 December 2014 | Bob Ellis: Toasting John Faulkner
• 5 December 2014 | Morrison's Death Row: The new lost generation
• 3 December 2014 | The kooky Cult of Abbott's end days
• 28 November 2014 | Bob Ellis at Summer Hill
• 17 November 2014 | Tony Abbott: The Loaded Dog of Australian politics
• 12 November 2014 | The Shirtfront Chronicles
• 6 November 2014 | The Gough Whitlam memorial: Farewell to a giant
• 30 October 2014 | Yesterday’s bogeyman and the petrol tax
• 13 October 2014 | Tony Abbott’s exclamation mark Government
• 3 October 2014 | Tony’s troubles don’t end with Bishop's burqas
• 20 September 2014 | The Chicken Little-in-Chief’s big beheading scare
• 17 September 2014 | Who are ISIL?
• 13 September 2014 | The Chicken Little-in-Chief’s Big Scare
• 8 September 2014 | One hundred things Abbott got wrong in his first year in power
• 7 September 2014 | Abbott's wars
• 25 August 2014 | Tony ‘Chicken Little’ Abbott
• 22 August 2014 | Captain Abbott's Team Epic Failure
• 19 August 2014 | Q&A and the Palmer method
• 15 August 2014 | The last days of Joe Hockey
• 14 August 2014 | Joe the Dill careers off
• 8 August 2014 | Team Australia: The tipping point
• 3 August 2014 | Scott Morrison: Madness as usual
• 1 August 2014 | Israel — and the words the White House will not say
• 23 July 2014 | The imprisonment of Scott Morrison
• 14 July 2014 | Stop killing children in Gaza, Bibi. Stop it now.
• 13 July 2014 | Sgot Moralsnone delivers children to their family's murderers
• 9 July 2014 | Scott Morrison — child kidnapper
• 28 June 2014 | Tamil boat tries terrorist Morrison
• 26 June 2014 | Palmer Gores Abbott to change Canberra climate
• 21 June 2014 | Orwell and the PPL: The mothers who miss out
• 16 June 2014 | Iraq III and the last of the Missionary Wars
• 12 June 2014 | Joe’s fair go and his new class war
• 6 June 2014 | Turnbull vs Abbott: D-Day Down Under?
• 2 June 2014 | Abbott and Morrison after Leo
• 31 May 2014 | The incredible shrivelling Joe Hockey
• 26 May 2014 | Advice for Smilin' Joe and Sado-Morrison
• 21 May 2014 | Bad budget and bad polls make Tony a winker
• 14 May 2014 | More Joe Hockey stupidity: Diamonds on the soles of his shoes
• 11 May 2014 | The stupidity of Joe Hockey
• 5 May 2014 | The things we do for love: Joe Hockey after dark
• 30 April 2014 | Abbott and Hockey's twilight war
• 28 April 2014 | The Coalition's Direct gateway to corruption
• 23 April 2014 | Royal ‘non-core’ Abbott’s poll cat struggle
• 18 April 2014 | Grangegate and the Lobbyists' Party
• 12 April 2014 | Bob Carr's book and Australia's guided democracy
• 4 April 2014 | Morrison sorts it out
• 31 March 2014 | Abbott’s week of woe: Counting the cost
• 26 March 2014 | Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten and Dame Quentin Bryce
• 25 March 2014 | The Liberals after Brock
• 18 March 2014 | Refugee torture and the darker Australia
• 16 March 2014 | Ellis: Labor to hold on in South Australia
• 8 March 2014 | Another week at Airstrip One
• 1 March 2014 | The Liberal’s worst week
• 23 February 2014 | The Scott Morrison ‘protection racket’ prevarication
• 22 February 2014 | Scott Morrison and the Manus Island murder
• 19 February 2014 | Post-democratic times
• 15 February 2014 | Liberal's latest week of woe
• 13 February 2014 | The recession we didn’t have to have
• 9 February 2014 | Griffith by-election: The morning after
• 1 February 2014 | Abbott’s worst week
• 21 January 2014 | The Andrews announcement
• 16 January 2014 | Morrison’s pirates
• 12 January 2014 | We didn’t vote for this
• 6 January 2014 | Out of Iraq
• 24 December 2013 | The Dark Ages
• 23 December 2013 | Conservatives plan to redefine disability
• 13 December 2013 | The paradox and the return
• 7 December 2013 | Abbott's hundred days
• 1 December 2013 | The Madness of Christopher Pyne
• 25 November 2013 | Tony Abbott's honeymoon horror
• 19 November 2013 | Time for Tony to take up something useful
• 9 November 2013 | The Abbott Government after fifty days
• 21 September 2013 | Why didn't Labor fight?
• 18 September 2013 | Bill Shorten: Duty, dignity and compassion
• 12 September 2013 | The police state election
• 6 September 2013 | Tony Abbott: Who is he?
• 2 September 2013 | Bob Ellis: baddies and worsies
• 30 August 2013 | Bob Ellis: Inside Newspoll
• 25 August 2013 | Questioning Neilsen and the robopolls
• 19 August 2013 | How the Right runs things
• 18 August 2013 | The Dobell Robertson figures revisited
• 16 August 2013 | Ellis: Newspoll antics escalate in Dobell and Robertson
• 10 August 2013 | The Nielsen and Galaxy polls
• 1 August 2013 | Bob Ellis speech at Craig Thomson fundraiser
• 31 July 2013 | Great Scott’s mad Tollgate
• 29 July 2013 | Ellis: The coming Rudd landslide explained
• 26 July 2013 | Thomson fundraiser does the job
• 16 July 2013 | Bob Ellis: "Invisible substance" gaffe may spell Abbott's end
• 15 July 2013 | Bob Ellis: Murdoch's brainwashing fails
• 11 July 2013 | The Scott Morrison Liberal Party dissolution
• 1 July 2013 | Federal election: State of play on day five
• 11 June 2013 | Thomson Agonistes
• 23 May 2013 | Pyne and the Sodom factor
• 12 May 2013 | Ariel Castro and the Ohio locked up girls
• 6 May 2013 | The Karl Rove Method
• 4 May 2013 | Our samizdat years
• 26 April 2013 | The Palmer effect
• 20 April 2013 | Marathon Men: the miniseries
• 15 April 2013 | Ding, dong
• 10 April 2013 | The day it all fell down
• 28 March 2013 | Tony Abbott: A question of character
• 21 March 2013 | LIVE: Thursday in Canberra — Bob Ellis' spill diary
• 17 March 2013 | Bob Ellis gives 'I Give It a Year' a big tick
• 16 March 2013 | Bob Ellis’ bifurcated week in Canberra
• 14 March 2013 | Freedom of speech is not the freedom to oppress
• 9 March 2013 | Newspoll's WA Liberal Party landslide
• 6 March 2013 | Token payout to Afghani parents threatens Aussie soldiers
• 2 March 2013 | Fairfax's new Western Sydney cheat poll
• 26 February 2013 | Bob Ellis reviews Anna Karenina
• 15 February 2013 | Our dear old Swanny
• 12 February 2013 | Ratsinger's resignation spells the end for the Mad Monk
• 4 February 2013 | Spielberg's Lincoln a time-periscope to the past
• 24 January 2013 | The biblical fall of Bibi Netanyahu
• 19 January 2013 | Armstrong agonistes
• 16 January 2013 | The Liberals’ nosedive explained
• 12 January 2013 | Hitching a ride to nowhere
• 8 January 2013 | The pillorying of Peter Slipper
• 5 January 2013 | Campbell ‘Hanging Chads’ Newman’s Excellent Adventure
• 30 December 2012 | Rape and afterwards
• 19 December 2012 | Solving Sandy Hook
• 14 December 2012 | The sinister conspiracies against Slipper and Thomson
• 7 December 2012 | Bob Ellis reviews new Clint Eastwood movie
• 6 December 2012 | Bob Ellis: Advice to John Faulkner
• 25 November 2012 | Bob Ellis on the Bryce Courtenay he knew
• 20 November 2012 | Aussie Mark Regev and the Israeli war on journalists
• 17 November 2012 | Netanyahu’s choice
• 15 November 2012 | Bob Ellis on the child abuse Royal Commission
• 10 November 2012 | The end of the G.O.P.
• 2 November 2012 | Sandy, oh Sandy
• 20 October 2012 | How Obama won
• 11 October 2012 | How Abbott stuffed up Musselgate
• 10 October 2012 | The Coalition's yellow stockings
• 8 October 2012 | Of Julia and Julian and the trimming of tongues
• 2 October 2012 | Bob Ellis reviews 'On the Road'
• 23 September 2012 | Bob Ellis: Tony Abbott is finished
• 17 September 2012 | The economic consequences of David Marr
• 3 September 2012 | The Sapphires shine
• 2 September 2012 | Julia Gillard and race
• 14 August 2012 | Nauru II
• 6 August 2012 | The Prince of Letters, Gore Vidal
• 30 July 2012 | Shakespeare in Italy — in Adelaide
• 29 July 2012 | Tony Abbott's Slippery Brough fingerprints
• 25 July 2012 | The masters of propaganda
• 16 July 2012 | Bob Ellis reviews Game Change
• 8 July 2012 | The Assange divide
• 2 July 2012 | Cutting the queue by admitting asylum seekers
• 24 June 2012 | The imminent killing of Julian Assange
• 18 June 2012 | The Australian scapegoat reflex
• 30 May 2012 | The last days of the Liberals
• 26 May 2012 | How the Right wins by cheating