Last week three people died together in what is being called a ‘triple suicide pact’ in a resort island at…

Let’s pretend for just a moment that Tony Abbott is the right-wing hardliner everyone says he is. Let’s pretend he’s not as…

There is no family Christmas, no school reunion more dysfunctional than the Liberal Party’s annual Federal Council. Every June, MPs, their staffers…

The Guardian Australia has published an extract from Julia Gillard’s John Curtin prime ministerial library’s anniversary lecture. Stay with me… She…

If you are one of those people who raised an eyebrow about my election to the Western Australian Legislative Council,…

Senator Cory Bernardi, as the leader of Australian Conservatives, has failed his first critical national economic test. A fortnight ago, Bernardi issued his weekly ‘common sense’…

Dr Boudewijn Chabot is a retired Dutch psychiatrist and psychotherapist. In 1993 he was charged with having assisted in the…

I wrote recently that the sensible centre in Australian politics is dead. Labor is off with the populist pixies and…

The current House of Representatives inquiry into the legalisation of personal vaporisers should be welcomed and not criticised, as tedious,…

This morning in Brisbane, Tony Abbott launched his campaign for the return to the prime ministership and to win the…

You might forgive parents reading the Sydney Morning Herald this week for thinking they’d better abandon their skinny latte and…

Somewhere near Liberal Party HQ the comrades of the Black Hand gathered to discuss their next move in the overthrow…

The important thing to remember about Christopher Pyne is that he was once a highly factional Young Liberal. The rot…

Sometime around 2.00 am Friday morning sleep-bleary parliamentarians gave a Gonski and allowed the government’s Gonski 2.0 education bill to…

How appropriate Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne was speaking to a Liberal left faction group called the Black Hand when…

Our Government has told us that the RAAF’s F-35 fleet of 72 aircraft will cost us $16,000 million. Setting aside…

Pauline Hanson set several cats among flocks of pigeons with her recent comment on autistic children in classrooms. Canberrans were…

The decision by President Trump to bomb the Syrian military airfield that launched chemical weapons against Syrian civilians in April…

‘I remember the first time we found welfare money in our bank account shortly after our arrival in Australia,’ South Australian Senator Lucy…

One of the more annoying exercises when preparing for piano exams was the ‘contrary motion’ scale. The student prepares a…

This must be a new record for the speed of a tax hike. On Monday 19 June, the federal parliament passed legislation implementing the major bank levy.…

The relationship between taxpayers and government should be symbiotic – to the mutual benefit of each party. This is certainly…

A new arrival from Africa is scared by a vacuum cleaner. Ha bloody ha. It might have made a gag once…

It’s clear now that the Coalition government is not only uninterested in the idea of restructuring the bureaucracy, but it also is not even interested…

When our government officially sends Australian abroad to represent and “sell” our country abroad, would it be nice if the…