Gillian Triggs: the final farewell
“I can’t believe it, Tim. Only five years into the job and my tenure as President of the Australian Human…
The Chloe Shorten family hour
On an icy Canberra evening, your correspondent makes her way through excited Chinese students to ANU’s Copland Theatre where Chloe Shorten…
Getting ready for that next Kirribilli iftar…
“Malcolm, that woman in PMC’s Hospitality and Protocol has sent over a Note reminding your office Ramadan has begun. She…
Be-Friending the ABC
It comes as no surprise when you discover that ‘Friends of the ABC’ is not, like, say, the CWA or…
Don’t bring them home
What does jihadist Neil Prakash, now jailed in Turkey, alleged drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury, jailed in Colombia and ex-Waverley college schoolboy, John Zakhariev…
What happens next in Jakarta?
Midnight in Jakarta but shops are still open, people meeting up and I’m sitting at a pavement café with three…
We need to talk about Julie…
There is a news picture of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop that sticks in my mind. Bishop, lithe, agile (that word again!)…
Send in the drones
On a crisp Canberra autumn morning last week scientists and technical experts from the CSIRO, the University of New South…
Goosey Lucy goes independent
Kenyan-born lawyer, now Family First Senator for South Australia Lucy Gichuhi was confirmed in her Senate seat after Labor decided…
EXCLUSIVE: An 18c victim speaks
What happened in 2013 to QUT student Calum Thwaites might have happened to your teenage son or mine. Thwaites and…
Shiny bums, quit yer whinging and on yer bikes!
Once upon a time a Poor Young Single Mother joined the Australian Public Service. She lived, with her child, in…
Howling with wolves
Maybe it’s time to start liking the Russians
