Warsaw Diary
When one first lands in Warsaw, it’s easy to dismiss the prevailing Soviet realist architecture. The endless blocks of flats…
Time to scrap the rebates
Malcolm Turnbull almost lost an election because he had no health policy. Bill Shorten and Labor’s blatant, fabricated ‘Mediscare’, claiming…
Election notes
Malcolm, take note… As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, and Labor’s Mark McGowan sweeping to office…
Women’s tennis is a joke
In the warm afterglow of the festival of tennis that was the Australian Open, and the glorious men’s final match…
Women’s tennis is a joke
In the warm afterglow of the festival of tennis that was the Australian Open, and the glorious men’s final match…
Turnbull, turn to Key
Once upon a time, a multi-millionaire, former merchant banker Prime Minister, highly successful in business who came to politics later…
Turnbull, turn to Key
Once upon a time, a multi-millionaire, former merchant banker Prime Minister, highly successful in business who came to politics later…
Sussan Ley: every cloud has a silver lining
Notwithstanding investigations under way into stood-aside Health minister Sussan Ley’s touching fondness for the Gold Coast, it now appears she…
John Key’s class act
There’s a photo taken in South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s funeral. Three Anglosphere PMs, Tony Abbott, Canada’s Stephen Harper and…
Labor must share blame for GP co-payment fallout
Last Friday, Fairfax ran a report by Latika Bourke on my talk to the Centre for Independent Studies, as the so-called…
We already have our Trump
I enjoyed the sainted editor, Rowan Dean’s, rollicking Flat White account of his Trump, Trump, Trumpety-Trump election count party. Any…
Oh, those wide-eyed Buzzfeed kidz
It must be a quiet news day. Buzzfeed’s Mark di Stefano posted a reheated story this morning, casting a close…
Time to start looking beyond Abbott
Whoever said or emailed what to whom, David Leyonhjelm’s Adler shotgun blasted through Coalition ranks last week. What this week’s…
James Paterson’s welcome lateral thinking
Good on Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson for his media campaign to sell Jackson Pollock’s drunken daub, Blue Poles, to…
Trolling with Clementine Ford
Fairfax columnist and ABC Drum presenter Julia Baird is drawn to forceful, opinionated public women. Baird is writing a biography of Queen Victoria, and in a column this week…
Hinch’s s*** on the liver
Revelations reported yesterday about Human Headline turned crucial Senate vote Derryn Hinch’s fondness for a tipple caused a bit of…
The Ides of Malcolm
So here we are, marking the Ides of Malcolm. One year ago today Malcolm Turnbull reached for his dagger and…
O brave new political world…
So here we are again. Federal parliament finally is reconvening, a mere four months since it last met and eight…
The morality of mandatory detention
Last week on the ABC programme, the Drum, I confronted my unwilling conscience. The topic was the Manus Island immigration…
There’s a silver lining to the census SNAFU
There’s no question that Census 2016 is an omnishambles of the first order that, as Simon Cowan succinctly sums up…
The Senate: as ye sow, so shall ye reap
The final Senate results are in and the Star Wars cantina of the last parliament will look monocultural compared to…
Shorten’s Leyland P76 reshuffle
Last week, Malcolm Turnbull missed his best opportunity to put a Coalition A-team on the ministerial paddock ahead of a…
Australian Notes
Shorten’s leyland p76 reshuffle Last week, Malcolm Turnbull missed his best opportunity to put a Coalition A-team on the ministerial…
Malcolm can’t blame Tony for this one
On election night Liberals expected to be clear winners of the longest campaign in memory, with Malcolm Turnbull having vanquished…
Child’s play
In Australia there are tens of thousands of emotionally stable, financially secure but medically infertile people. As much as they…
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