G-G notes
Maybe it’s the sleeping monarchist in me – my Irish Catholic granny would be so ashamed – but wasn’t it…
Australian notes
This is the last reshuffle before the election, we promise. No more resignations, no more scandals, no more inter-party warfare.…
Kerr’s curse
Here it is, yet another book on the Dismissal. The fall of Gough Whitlam in 1975 has created quite a…
Shorten’s (and everyone else’s) year ahead
My predictions for 2016
Kathystruck
The Four Corners Lawler and Jackson show was much more than just great telly
Dragged to the Chair
Far from being a disaster, the Brownyn scandal may be a boon for Tony Abbott
Why conservatives should love Shorten
Tony Abbott’s best chance of winning the next election is the person the PM’s supporters are so keen to destroy
Killing it
They were the political grotesques that political junkies can’t get enough of. Thank god they’re back.
Tanya Pliber-split
A binding vote on gay marriage looms as the next big Labor party split
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
The Intergenerational Report offers the government a glimpse into their (and our) future
Going troppo
Think the Liberals federal leadership spill was bizarre? Try the Northern Territory’s
Lock up yer dole-bludgin’ daughters
Gary Johns has conceived of ‘No contraception, no dole’. Can it work?
Bottom drawer
Scott Morrison was wrong to pander to the baying feminazis over Julien Blanc
Sheikh Google
Islamic terrorism has found the perfect way to creep into our teenagers’ bedrooms
Bottom drawer
Tony Abbott’s been eating too many blue Smarties
The Oz turns 50
It works the sophisticates into a lather, but Chris Mitchell’s Australian is the only serious newspaper in the country
One of us
Malcolm Turnbull espouses classic big-L Liberal values
Campus riff-raff
Student radicals are hurting the cause (again)