FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - Caught on Camera

Michael Pascoe: Housing no longer a crisis – it’s much worse than that

Wake up, Australia: The usual headlines shouting “housing crisis!” no longer describe the reality – this is a national housing emergency.

The New Daily · Mar 4, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Politics is erasing Kissinger’s achievement

During the Winter Olympics, headlines suggested America had undone Henry Kissinger’s strategy of weakening Russia by engaging with China.

The New Daily · Mar 1, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Morrison government failures to deliver are even worse than they look

The Morrison government’s hallmark of making big announcements but failing to deliver looks bad – broken promises being a subset of a reputation for lying.

The New Daily · Feb 22, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Here comes the window dressing (Cheers, Biloela family!)

The good news: I’m quietly confident the Biloela family will be “home to Bilo” before the election. The bad news: They should have been there years ago.

The New Daily · Feb 8, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Aged care, COVID, cheap migrant labour and the minister from the BBC circa 1980

As the spotlight hits the Morrison government’s treatment of aged care workers, we’re to have a task force “examine” deaths in residential aged care.

The New Daily · Feb 3, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Join the dots for housing policy failure

The government's HomeBuilder scheme did next to nothing to solve our most important housing problem – shelter for those on low incomes.

The New Daily · Jan 27, 2022

Michael Pascoe: Grants corruption rolls on, with bias in bowls too

Sure, $17.6 million is peanuts amid the Morrison government’s multibillion-dollar grants corruption, but let’s go bowling.

The New Daily · Jan 20, 2022

Michael Pascoe: What if Omicron bedlam is not a cockup but intentional?

Pretend for a moment you are in charge and decide you will let the virus rip, as you’ve been urging for much of the past year. When would you do it?

The New Daily · Jan 18, 2022