We should teach our children how to fail
In the selfie-driven, life-curation-for-social-media-age we inhabit, failure is as unspeakable as a bad smell in a small space.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Contradictory attacks on Turnbull don't add up
Has Malcolm Turnbull leaned too far to the left or the right? Can it even be both?
What will Turnbull do about Abbott?
Tony, you promised. But the temptation was just too great.
The world's most expensive delaying tactic
All jokes aside, it's hard not to feel sorry for Scott Morrison. It must be tough backing a doomed cause.
Gay rights could defeat Islamic State
It's only a hunch. But I am pretty sure that if you did up a Venn diagram of those who hate gay people and those who hate Muslims, there would be such significant cross-over it would resemble a near-eclipse.
The truth about Turnbull's J Lo moment
We really are a dreadfully cynical people. Malcolm Turnbull, worried for his declining popularity, released an advertisement this week about his childhood, in which he described his father's struggles to bring him up after his mother bolted.
Is Barnaby becoming our rural Trump?
If you self-identify as a politician, it's time to get real.
Abbott is haunting Turnbull's campaign
Humility is the first step towards redemption, and as a religious man, no one knows this better than Tony Abbott.
Paying tax doesn't make you more important
The great hero/villain of the campaign this week was the non-politician Duncan Storrar, the 45-year-old audience member on the ABC's Q&A.;
The long scream of the Anglo male
New ABC boss Michelle Guthrie commenced work this week, and started as she presumably means to go on – by calling for greater diversity in content and staff.
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