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The NEG lottery winners and losers
It is said lotteries are a tax on people who are too stupid to understand probability. The chances of winning the $100 million Powerball …
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Surviving the plastic bag donnybrook
This week the nation has witnessed distressing images of forlorn supermarket shoppers breaking down and weeping at self-serve check-outs. Teary shoppers had forgotten or …
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Super Saturday by-elections look second rate
Voters in five electorates will trudge to the ballot boxes this weekend. The media has decided to run with the puerile Americanism of Super …
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Solidarity has its limits
There are never enough hours in the day. I could adopt some time management techniques, pick up a minute here, another there but in …
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Neymar dives to greatness, amid global ridicule
Brazilian striker Neymar has become a global joke, a somersaulting clown, a diver and a prima donna. In a sport where being in the …
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One Perfect Day
I guess everyone has days like this from time to time. Utterly perfect days, when everything falls into place, where expectation meets denouement, and …
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From Roseanne to Hanson, a real week of idiocy
Without getting in to the ghastly post-surgery details, I have been sitting and watching the world from behind closed doors with my new bladder, …
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The only Newspoll that matters for Turnbull is the thirtieth
Poor Malcolm Turnbull, caught in a trap, a web, a snare, ambushed and assailed, boxed in and brutishly bushwhacked by Malcolm Turnbull. Malcolm Turnbull …
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Bill Shorten the political contortionist
Let’s face it, Bill Shorten is the only reason Coalition MPs still get out of bed every morning. Without him, they’d be stuck in …
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In the Canberra space, no one can hear anybody scream
You may have heard the phrase, much-beloved by corporate types and politicians alike, “in the space”. During question time this week, the Minister for …