A billion dollars doesn't make you smart. It just makes you rich.

Confident, arrogant and with more authority than any 17-year-old kid, Malcolm Turnbull was a hell of a school debater. But where was that spark election night?

Labor's remarkable election success in the state caught most by surprise and looks set to bring down the Turnbull government one way or another.

If he just proceeds as if "jobs and growth" is enough, he won't last the parliamentary term.

Look around in Australia on the first business day after the country was supposedly rendered "ungovernable" by Saturday's election. On Monday the share market was up and so was the Australian dollar.

A round up of the veritable flock of scapegoats being rounded up in the wake of Saturday's polls.

Even though I had already completed my duty, I couldn't keep away.

He will never lead a party to an election again.

Caroline Aherne, five time Bafta winner was sick of being famous

(SATIRE) In the spirit of Royal Commissions into ‘things that scare us a little because we don’t understand them’, here are 10 other things that Ms Hanson should use more taxpayer money to investigate.

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Making plans for a holiday? You're probably wondering whether you're too busy to take a week off from work. Maybe you're thinking that you can, but only if you're headed to a resort that has WiFi. The prospect of being away from the office likely makes you a bit jittery. After all, how will they get along without you?

How can someone so well-read, well-informed and long untroubled by the need to make any more money keep making so many unnecessary mistakes?

Driving in Perth can be frustrating at the best of times.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged Australians elect a "stable majority Coalition Government" rather than the "chaos" of a minority government during the election.

The election's big winners are those few who can't abide the gays being wed.

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Southerners are outraged at Pauline Hanson's re-election.

We're in for a hell of a week. Your post-poll hangover as a snarky rant.

Feminism must include men, not just as supportive allies but as partners, with an equal voice and equal humanity.

It is not enough to say you have a plan for a strong new economy. You actually have to have one.

It's just nonsense to imagine that people voted for Labor candidates because the Liberals weren't right-wing enough. Government members need to recognise that to get anything done they need Xenophon.

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Political leaders who jettison facts undermine the very fabric of our democracies and threaten our future.

Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author whose seminal work "Night" is regarded as one of the most powerful achievements in Holocaust literature, has died, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial said. He was 87.

Australia's once bold drug policy is now stuck. Our law enforcement leaders tell us that Australia cannot arrest and imprison our way out of our drug problems. Yet as Australia struggles with increasing problems from ice use, we haven't been prepared to try innovative approaches that appear to have worked overseas.

Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter, and then all but squandered it two years later with Heaven's Gate, died on Saturday. He was 77.

Authenticity being a recurring theme in Australian politics, this open-ended election has revealed a Labor Party that for the first time in a long time seems comfortable in its political skin.

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It's time to wake up, Canberra, after your snooze through the too-long election campaign.

The truth about Saudi Arabia: reliable United States ally or formentor of religious extremism?

(SATIRE) Bunnings once controlled 80% of the sausage-sizzle market (SSM), but figures today showed its share had fallen below 10% as consumers flocked to competitor SS operators at polling booths.

Perhaps we the people can pause, just this once, and give thanks for the benign nature of our politics.