Dr Benjamin T. Jones

@BenjaminTJones1

Sydney academic, drinker and rambler. Mainly interested in history, politics, philosophy ... and lots of other things.

Sydney, Australia
Joined April 2012

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  1. Harsh but fair. Farewell Joe Hockey, champion of cheap politics

  2. A very strange Guinness World Record. Also, if he only has the record from animation, does someone have more TV tats?

  3. Nothing lasts forever. Party's over for Playboy king Hugh Hefner

  4. Great analysis. David Marr on Bill Shorten: can the man from nowhere go all the way?

  5. We need to update our language on DV. The men who abuse women are 'real'. Turnbull's first TV interview as PM

  6. Uni funding impacts everyone not just students. We need a clever country. Labor will increase uni funding

  7. Hell is other people, they say. Neighbourly notes you wouldn’t want to find on your doorstep

  8. Joe Hockey is gone. Once considered a future PM, he tied his fate to Abbott's. It proved more disastrous than any economic decision.

  9. Insightful article by Hartcher. How will the ALP respond? Turnbull steals Shorten's narrative

  10. Here's ' illustration to go with my column tomorrow on

  11. Wonderful to see so many women in Turnbull's cabinet. Fair and enlightened societies accept and celebrate women in leadership.

  12. Unbelievable result. So proud! Manchester City vs West Ham United

  13. Seven things the cabinet reshuffle tells us about Malcolm Turnbull

  14. Malcolm Turnbull names new ministry, promoting women and supporters

  15. Libs win Canning but both sides claim victory via

  16. A few years ago, seen as potential future prime minister of Australia. Becoming Tony Abbott's Treasurer destroyed his career

  17. Knighthoods are gone, the minister for women is a woman, climate change is real, it's not the 1950s anymore.

  18. What!? Our minister for women is a woman now? Is that even constitutional?

  19. I know it's to stop corruption but it seems silly that the PM has to pay for gifts from other leaders.

  20. Exactly. If you have Republican sympathies - and that should be EVERYONE - please RT, and follow !

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