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Christopher Dore

Trump, Musk, Rudd spell huge problems for ‘sh.t-scared’ Albo

THE FRONT DORE: Donald Trump back in the White House doesn’t owe anyone anything. The problem for Australia is that Anthony Albanese will be mauled by him.

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Anthony Albanese can still win the upcoming Federal election. This is what he must do to stay PM, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

The Albanese Survival Guide: what the PM must do now

THE FRONT DORE: Anthony Albanese has only months to stop the slow, seditious slide into minority government. But the Queensland election result has given him a gift. Here’s how he can use it.

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Here’s the speech Anthony Albanese should have delivered today, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

The speech Anthony Albanese should have delivered today

THE FRONT DORE: Here’s the speech Anthony Albanese should have delivered today, 12 months on from the October 7 atrocities — instead of the cliches, glib lines and bureaucratic words he actually delivered.

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We’re sorry Albo. We were wrong about you, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

Sorry, Albo, we were wrong about you. We’ve been unfair

THE FRONT DORE: It’s time to fess up. In the two and a half years since he became PM, we’ve been wrong about Anthony Albanese. We’ve been unreasonable. Unkind. Definitely unfair.

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Mark Willacy’s fake war crime story was exposed as a ‘hazy’ decade-old memory in court. But he and the ABC have refused to apologise.
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Christopher Dore

The astonishing arrogance of the ABC’s war on truth

THE FRONT DORE: A Federal Court case uncovered in graphic detail how a ‘hazy’ decade-old memory turned into a fake war crime expose. But rather than apologise, the ABC and Mark Willacy have dug their heels in.

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The ex-PM has been telling us all along his treasurer was an economic dud. Now Wayne Swan has proved him right.
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Christopher Dore

Why we owe Kevin Rudd an apology

THE FRONT DORE: The ex-PM has been telling us all along his treasurer was an economic dud. Now Wayne Swan has proved him right.

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Neither Chalmers nor Albanese take any responsibility for the state of the economy, or anything else for that matter, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

Honeymoon is over. So is the wedding.

THE FRONT DORE: The PM and his people talk a lot. Some of it makes sense. Most of it is designed to distract from what everyone else outside of Canberra is obsessed with.

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Albo is the captain of circumlocution — the use of many words when fewer would do. And while he’s busy talking about (mostly himself), his predecessor is busy doing what the PM struggles to do, Christopher Dore writes.
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Christopher Dore

If we had our time again, would Bill Shorten be PM

THE FRONT DORE: Tenacious as he is, no one genuinely believes Bill Shorten can make a John Howard, ‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’ comeback. But maybe he should.

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Anthony Albanese is the Raygun of politics.
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Christopher Dore

What Raygun and Albo have in common

THE FRONT DORE: Our PM pulled out all the right moves to get the call-up for national duty, looks pretty snazzy in the green and gold tracksuit, but can’t quite nail the routine on the big stage.

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Meet Clementine Ford, an online persona so absurdly asinine she simply must be a construct of AI, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

This has to be AI: Meet online character Clementine Ford

Meet Clementine Ford, an online persona so absurdly asinine she simply must be a construct of AI.

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Anthony Albanese’s reaction to a political cartoon depicting him in Y-fronts has exposed a lot more than our PM would have liked, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

How a political cartoon exposed more than Albo’s jocks

THE FRONT DORE: Anthony Albanese’s reaction to a political cartoon depicting him in Y-fronts has exposed a lot more than our PM would have liked.

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Joe Hockey interviewed Kevin Rudd at the Republican convention.
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Christopher Dore

Why our desperately boring MPs make Kevin Rudd look good

THE FRONT DORE: Australians haven’t had anything to get worked up about, good or bad, since, well, Kevin 07. We’ve been in a slow spiral since his over-amped rise and untimely demise.

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The Trump assassination attempt was devastatingly inevitable, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

Why Trump’s bullet dodge should terrify all Australians

THE FRONT DORE: He is not the first president or candidate to face an assassination attempt. But Donald Trump is the first in the social media age. There is a tragic inevitability to this attempted murder.

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Fatima Payman, for all her faults, including of course being disloyal to the party and people who put her into parliament, is everything Anthony Albanese thinks he is, everything he used to be, but has lost. 
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Christopher Dore

When it comes to Labor, Albo & diversity — It’s fugazi

THE FRONT DORE: For modern Labor, diversity and inclusivity are everything. So long as you agree to conform.

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Anthony Albanese is the Joe Biden of Australian politics. At his best he’s fire, at his worst he’s a gibberer, writes Christopher Dore.
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Christopher Dore

Anthony Albanese is the gibbering Joe Biden of Australia

THE FRONT DORE: On his terms, Albanese can be fire. Attacking Greens in Parliament, smashing young journalists, scorching Peter Dutton. But unscripted, and out of his comfort zone, he is a gibberer.

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