This week marked the 106th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli and the 25th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, with the memorial service for the latter covered beautifully by Charlie Lewis.
But while the occasions saw many gathering to remember lives lost, politicians took the moment to warn more conflict may be brewing — a task Peter Dutton and Mike Pezzullo relished, as Kishor Napier-Ramen wrote. Bernard Keane and Guy Rundle also found that it was a convenient explanation for a big budget spend.
Meanwhile, I covered Andrew Laming and the old boys club’s predictable pivot to claiming victimhood, Napier-Ramen took a look at Assistant Attorney-General Amanda Stoker’s issue with anti racism, and Adam Schwab examined the flaws in JobKeeper. Lewis spent the week in Tasmania digging into today’s state election, Christopher Warren took a look at the Morrison government’s climate-change cover up, and