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What if budgets, and candidates for office, told the truth?

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A slim majority means that every vote counts - so who's going to give one up?

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Not only have we been managed by some of the most laughable and self-serving politicians in the last eight years, we now have to wait eight days to get an inkling of an election result. You have had your time Australian Electoral Commission. You are yesterday's technology; you are the fax machine to my smartphone, you are the video store to my Netflix; You are the horse and cart to my Uber!

David Icke British is a one-time football player who went on to become a sports commentator, only to take up the job of national spokesman for the Green Party in Britain. And he is now a full-time conspiracy theorist.

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Sometimes it feels like there are two Pauline Hansons. The first is the actual person. The second is a political symbol.

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With what feels like a whole generation stumbling around the streets, phones in hand, trying to "catch 'em all" this week, it would be easy to forget that Pokemon GO and augmented reality games aren't even the most significant cultural shift taking place thanks to mobile phones right now.

Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the 6 million Jews slaughtered in World War II, died at his home in Manhattan.

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It's a word that's been used to belittle women since ancient times.

Sally Beauman: "I was paid a great deal of money and wrote a book that was sexually explicit. Both were unforgivable."

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Major powers behaving badly is not unprecedented, but what will Beijing do about the South China Sea ruling between the Philippines and China?

In the debate about affordability in our biggest cities, the housing needs of one of Australia's most vulnerable communities are being ignored.

Sydney Harbour pilot who always said that the longer a pilotage took, the more time there was to make mistakes.

The national roll out of the NDIS is changing lives in a way that will be felt by all Australians.

I am not a mother, but the last time I checked, my opinion was just as valid as my ovaries.

We're waiting for the inevitable with Fuzz, our 15-year-old golden retriever.

Theresa May is facing the classic "glass cliff": taking the reins when a country is facing a huge crisis.

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It is strange that such agreements have never been made public because the parties should have nothing to hide.

It's a well known journalistic saying that if a dog bites a man, that's not news, but if a man bites a dog it most certainly is.

Malcolm Turnbull will barely have time to lick his election wounds before he is confronted with a serious question by Barack Obama.

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Winning the public transport lucky dip then complaining about it isn't making the eastern suburbs friends across the other three-quarters of Sydney.

With a near dead heat in the race to form government, why does there have to be only one winner? Why can't we all be winners drawing on the strengths of all our politicians, not just half of them?

The election may be decided, but voter discontent seems unlikely to be eased.

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The plain fact is that the mainstream politicians have forfeited our trust and lost our respect.

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Theresa May made it clear that she intends to unite party and country, while disuniting Europe. Brexit may not have been her choice, but she will get the job done.

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Surely we don't want to spend our days chasing digital phantoms around city streets?

Cartoonist Frank Dickens: "Monday: Up at 5.45am. Thinks up six 'Bristows'. Draws them. 9.00am faxes them to office. End of working week."

The real action at the Republican National Convention will be the action no one sees coming.

Building a cold, sunless, windswept and alienated city square in Parramatta is not a recipe for urban success.

Whatever the truth of Labor's privatisation claim, people believed it because it was the kind of thing they expected the government to do.