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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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Foreign interference bills won’t stop China donations
Shhh. Don’t mention the Chinese. Malcolm may have done so once or twice but I think he got away with it. This week the …
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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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Bill Shorten is on the nose — especially among Labor’s grass roots
I’ll let you into a little secret. Bill Shorten is on the nose. I’m not talking about general community scepticism or the bounty of …
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Kim Beazley takes the drinks trolley ahead of principle
The arrival of the Prince Charles on Australian soil, the opening of the Commonwealth Games and the appointment of Kim Beazley as Governor of …
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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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Government in the slow learners class
You have to wonder if government is capable of learning from the mistakes of the past. If it was a school student, it’d be …
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Shorten’s cunning stunt
We should be grateful to Labor, Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen for one thing at least. They have switched the Canberra vaudeville to off …