The Labor party is trashed. Gillard remains PM and Rudd's ambitions are surely over. Canberra's culture of leaks and anonymous sources has severely damaged our democracy, writes Ben Eltham

The media reforms are a headache for a government in strife. The legislative process was flawed, but the media has over-reacted. It's not much of a break from conjecture over the leadership, writes Ben Eltham

The Greens have always supported a cross-party approach to marriage equality, and to suggest otherwise is an apparatchik's fever dream. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young replies to Neil Pharaoh