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Abbott, part II
With talk of an early election, it is time politicians focussed on what really matters to the electorate
Racists, fascists and socialist scum
Recent rallies in Australia’s main cities have pitted a variety of comical eccentrics against each other
It’s a liver!
A US scandal has abortion doctors offering a macabre menu of baby body parts
Big Bird’s submarine choice
Political self interest threatens our national security and the safety of our submariners
Wrong diagnosis, again
Raising the GST will make the problem worse, not better
No lemons here
Edmund Capon curates an extraordinary collection of modern Australian art
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
Fat Duckling
Heston Blumenthal chances his hand down under
Orange glow
The NSW smoking ban is an Inglorious revolution
Queering their pitch
Advocates of same sex marriage are disingenuous in their calls for open debate
Dockside humour
Thuggery on Australia’s waterfronts has a long and, er, proud history
Iranian bombshell
She may be the ayatollahs’ pin up girl, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is flirting with danger
Killing a Vietnamese pig
Has the supermarket inured us to the suffering of slaughtered animals?
Qui est Charlie maintenant?
Charlie Hebdo’s name has been hijacked by the very people ‘Charlie’ despised
A pox on both their houses
The hard right and the hard left are equally contemptible in many Jewish eyes
Bottom drawer
Putin, Franco and the Tsar
Elevating victimhood
Straight white male victims of identity politics are speaking out about their fear of speaking out
Squawk du jour
There’s nothing wrong with rendering terrorists stateless
Islamic State, Year One
On the first anniversary of the Isis ‘caliphate’, the real winners are Iran
Our ABC – independent or not?
Mark Scott sang a very different tune to Rudd and Gillard
On the politeness front, the Aussies are bound to lose
The only predictable aspect to this Ashes tour is Australia’s grumpy attitude
Mission impossible
The plan to recognise Indigenous Australians within the Constitution will self destruct after this message...
Hearts and minds
The idea of an Indigenous representative body enshrined in the Constitution risks killing the Recognition campaign
Let Charles do the Recognising
Rather than a phony, legalistic preamble, let the Australian monarch recognise who was here first
Bottom Drawer
Divorce as a protest to gay marriage is brave. But why not divorce now? Or better still, not at all.
