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Queensland's message to Malcolm Turnbull last Saturday was simple: TURN off the BULL.

Property developers, would you believe, are angry at the Baird government. How could this be?

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The current uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the July 2 election has sparked speculation of a possible re-run later this year to resolve what appears to be a looming deadlock. This would take Australia into uncharted territory.

Both sides have lessons they can glean from the federal campaign.

One of the outcomes of Saturday's federal election is that Victorians now have as one of their 12 representatives in the Senate a man who has over the past 30 years been to jail twice and fined $100,000 for beaching court orders, and who has been roundly criticised by the High Court for undermining the right of an accused person to a fair trial. We are talking about broadcaster Derryn Hinch.

If anyone could introduce the word doormat into a poem, Wordsworth could.

Lois Lane generally ended up tied to railway tracks, trapped in a cave or, as Neill put it "bound, gagged and waiting for the bomb to go off"

And Cory Bernardi is closer to victory over the Liberals! Your post-election news of the day, expressed as a snarky rant.

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Talk of a potential constitutional and/or political crisis following this federal election result is at best premature.

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Younger people should be allowed to cast more votes during elections, because they have much more at stake than someone who is already retired.

Stefania Siedlecky identified poor access of Aboriginal women to the health system.

Many voters seem to be flocking to tough, no-nonsense women who at least seem sensible.

I'll never forget Rod Tiley's reaction when I tried to take a day off last year from my Sunday radio spot on account of it being my birthday.

When Uber isn’t wrapping itself in cloaks of communal good, it is busy trying to institute a monopoly on ride-hailing.

There is also no point inviting Pauline Hanson to Hurstville to experience the real Australia. Racism isn't cured with good meal.

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It is a great paradox of Hanson's politics that she cannot see that the people she claims to represent and the people she maligns in order to give them voice, may have much in common.

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The wheels didn't fall off. They were stolen.

The politics of Hansonism haven't changed during the past two decades. By contrast, Australian society has moved on.

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All the pictures of Malcolm Turnbull looking glum since Saturday night tell us a story we already instinctively knew: he fears he has miscalculated again.

Plenty of Australians are mad as hell. You know who you are. But Coalition strategists don't.

And the senate - oh dear god, the senate… Your news of the election aftermath, reduced to a snarky rant.

It is a basic principle of economics that human beings choose things that benefit them. But last week, as the results of Britain's referendum on membership in the European Union came in, it quickly became clear that this principle was being overturned.

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The success of Labor's Mediscare in this election is worrying - but not for the reason you may imagine.

Donald Trump appeals directly to the worst in us, and the worst of us.

Experts have urged doctors to talk about the elephants in the room, especially at the end of life. But two recent studies show how achingly slow progress has been.

The tech aspect of globalisation means that without proactive public policy, innovation is likely to grow as a factor driving inequality.

I regret my vote: We should have voted decisively Liberal.

The growing gulf between Australia's democracy and the people cannot be papered over, irrespective of who emerges in charge.

Who do people think they're impressing by using the term "bedwetter" as an insult?