Gazing at the politics of a vassal state is interesting in one acute, and jarring sense.  Voices of presumed independence are often bought; political opinions that seem well informed are, in fact, ventriloquised.  The origin is always elsewhere. Australia’s politicians represent this more starkly than most.  Supposedly representatives of the people who elect them, they … Continue reading The Fall of Sam Dastyari: The Allures of Foreign Influence