Should the Senate exist?
Is the Senate real? Have you touched it? Have you licked it? Sure, there’s an edifice, a room draped in a loud, garish red …
Greens are a god awful mess
Greetings from the Australian Greens bunker. I can report all your favourite Green MPs are hunkered down here, painstakingly avoiding any public statement, dodging …
A one way ticket to the boneyard
It’s official. The Liberal Party is a shambles, a great hulking wreck smashed on the rocks of factionalism and personality conflicts so vicious and ugly …
Neil Prakash is about to enter years of hell
Australian terrorist Neil Prakash is before the Turkish courts. It is just the beginning of his punishment. Eventually, it is hoped he be returned …
Laughing it up with Malcolm
The national smoke night known as the Midwinter Ball has been rumbled. Of course, you and I can’t go, not without creating a scene …
This sugar rush will soon dissolve to anger
A very curious thing is happening in the parliament today. The Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill is set to be waved through the House …
Kevin still not helping
In relative terms, Bill Shorten, Labor leader since September 2013, has lived a charmed existence. Until he took the job, Labor leaders had a …
Australian values — a user’s guide
I’ve said it many times before. Australia is the best damned country in the world with the exception of some island nations in the …
Liberal Party never so vulnerable
The Liberal Party broad church is groaning under the strain of ideological and personality conflicts. While a fully blown schism at some point before …
Hunters and collectives
It is fair to say the Right has been feeling the ideological pinch lately. While the fussing and feuding has been going on, the …