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An inquiry, Turnbull said, would ‘expose the culture that allowed it to remain unrevealed for so long’. But what occurred at Don Dale was not ‘unrevealed’.

You know when the captains of industry and their cabin boys in parliament call for hearings to be held in private that what they are really hoping for is a Clayton’s corruption commission.

‘We didn’t attack them at Pearl Harbour,’ one Australian observer says. ‘We didn’t declare war on them in the Second World War.’

Climate change is so often portrayed as being principally a concern of young, educated, wealthy, urban lefties. Yet those doing the most about it at a personal level are the demographic opposite.

I first encountered these Chechens in Sadr City in 2004. They were like ghosts, urban myths.

Christensen’s fit of pique on superannuation only reinforces just how precarious is the Coalition’s hold on government.

Having no money and no members may be one conjoined problem, but lacking clear policies that actually connected with people was another problem entirely.

For a prime minister who had just won an election, Turnbull’s hold on authority is remarkably precarious. ‘He’s a sitting duck and he knows it,’ was the way one of his MPs put it.

The reason they’re in Darwin is not for the lifestyle. It’s because of the relatively low tax regime.

The significance of the industry to the economy is in freefall, and it has happened in spite of huge increases in coal export volumes ... We’re left with an industry of much less value doing far more harm.