Stuff the diversity warriors and say it loud, say it proud: Merry Christmas!
An outfit called the Diversity Council claims to be the place to go for advice on diversity and inclusion in…
Beijing Bob bangs the wrong drum?
On Monday, ABC’s panel programme The Drum discussed Australia’s complicated relationship with China, and the Chinese Communist Party’s government decision…
Winnie, you and your Peking party panjandrums can’t purge our pols
It seems that two prominent Liberal MPs, James Paterson and Andrew Hastie, have blotted their copybooks with the panda panjandrums…
John Howard’s one big blunder: persuading Malcolm Turnbull to stay
John Howard is a great Australian and a great Liberal. Over the 75 years if its existence, only two figures…
What the world needs now is love, sweet love: ScoMo
In a speech to the Hillsong church in Sydney on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison riffed intriguingly on the power…
G’day Albo, mate. Welcome to Hell
When a loved one dies, the real grieving is often postponed. The senses numb the immediate shock, helping the bereaved…
Cassidy’s cheerio reveals the groupthink luvvieland that is the ABC’s Insiders
For political groupies, Barrie Cassidy’s last episode of Insiders on the ABC was reason to look both backwards and forwards.…
Kristina Keneally: Albo’s golden girl – or a golden goose?
The week just past in politics, the week to come: Rarely in federal politics has there been as meteoric rise…
The election is over; the future beckons
The week in politics, the week to come. The theme for this election-period weekly column has been Backwards and Forwards.…
Tony Abbott: with thanks to the fallen warrior
Last night former prime minister Tony Abbott succumbed to a perfect political storm: a climate zealot candidate dressed up as…
Mr Shorten, we knew Bob Hawke…
It didn’t take long, did it? After yesterday likening himself to Gough Whitlam, this morning Bill Shorten used Labor’s greatest…
Israel Folau is a bloody footballer, not St Thomas More
When I was on Sky’s The Front Page programme the other night the topic of Israel Folau and his religious…
We don’t want Shorten to succeed, but Liberals to act like Liberals
The week in politics, the week to come: The final week of this meandering election campaign is upon us. The…
Three debate tips for ScoMo for tonight’s debate
Tonight’s National Press Club debate is crucial in that it’s actually going to be watched and not just reported. Not…
ScoMo’s enthusiasm just isn’t enough
The week in politics, the week to come. My five-month-old daughter Elizabeth loves music. Any music. Even my cack-handed piano…
Backwards & Forwards: watch out Bill. This is all very Magpies and Blues, grand final 1970
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back The Coalition shaded Labor last week, but this time by…
Backwards & Forwards: happy clappy happy
The week in politics, the week to come: Looking back Scott Morrison and the Coalition won the week. Nothing more…
Backwards & Forwards: towards the campaign black hole
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Last Thursday, the eternal sunlight of the spotless mind erased…
Backwards & Forwards: Billy boy’s electric cars and a Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow budget
Looking back Josh Frydenberg and Bill Shorten had their budgetary pissing contest. My surpluses will be bigger than yours, my…
The Coalition needs a bazooka to stop Shorten. Try this one…
In my Backwards and Forwards column on Monday, I said that if Bill Shorten gave a barnstorming, grievance-pandering, promise-laden speech…
More an epitaph than a budget
Looking at the reaction to Josh Frydenberg’s first budget, its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has…
Backwards & forwards: the NRA blows budget week to pieces
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Were you looking for pre-Budget leaks last week? For big…
Shorten’s secret friend and helper: Pauline Hanson
Thursday 28 March was the day that the Coalition guaranteed it lost May’s election. It had its good, bad and…
Backwards & Forwards: Glad’s back as Scott sees salvation
Looking back: Berejiklian’s Glad to be back On Saturday the Coalition government of New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian was…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics gone, the week to come
Looking back Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted…
