When everything's sold off, will we need foreign aid?
We could soon effectively rely on foreign aid to run electricity.
That Thinking Feeling
Woman, 62, has a baby and everyone else has an opinion
On the face of it, and in theory, 62 might be a touch too old to give birth to a child; for that reason the questions being raised by the case of a Tasmanian woman and her 78-year-old partner is understandable.
Juvenile justice disgrace shows it's time to take back the Territory
It's an image that should stay with us forever. Here in Australia, where we have the best of everything, a child is strapped to a bare restraint chair.
Melania Trump's plagiarism proof of 'values'
Western politics is more divided and bitter than at just about any time in the past century – but in America at least it's united by one thing.
Perhaps it's time to leave Gordon Nuttall alone
Isn't it time we just left Gordon Nuttall alone?
Madonna King: Consider Pauline our payback
Queensland's message to Malcolm Turnbull last Saturday was simple: TURN off the BULL.
Plebiscite or perish? Taking the politics out of same-sex marriage
The same-sex marriage plebiscite, scheduled in the weeks after Malcolm Turnbull's likely victory on Saturday, will upstage any of the nastiness we've seen in recent politics.
We can't vote Rosie, but we get Pauline
Sometimes it takes an 11-year-old to nail it. "Why are the politicians saying bad things about the other side," my daughter asked yesterday, "and not saying what they would do".
Where have all the leaders gone?
If Howard returned, a friend says, he would walk into PM's office.
Big Four earning back our trust? Don't bank on it
A royal commission into our banks is needed for exactly the reasons the banks' bosses say it is not.
Madonna King: Yes, Donald Trump is barking mad
OK, Bill Shorten probably shouldn't have called Donald Trump barking mad.
Survivors launch handbook to escape violence
Book tells tale of how group of women escaped perpetrators.
Newman just cost us half a million
Another week, another bill in the mail from Campbell Newman's ill-disciplined approach to politics.
She died naked on a beach, yet where is call for justice?
Why doesn't the murder of Lynette Daley warrant bigger headlines, and more talk?
Seeney's spill push just left LNP worse off
Having played a leading role in putting the LNP into opposition, Jeff Seeney is now keeping them there.
Now for Premier's latest trick - make trust disappear
The decision to overhaul voting has the strong capacity to change Annastacia Palaszczuk in the eyes of voters.
Why running in a public park should be free
Politicians can act contrary to the public interest but they need to run with the crowd on this one.
How the shiny new PM lost his lustre
Malcolm Turnbull's lost his mojo, and the Australian public along with it.
Cue the laugh track for ex-leaders reality TV show
Ex-leaders - ousted by voters or their own parties - return to play themselves before live audience.
If PM wants crackdown, Sinodinos must go
Prime Minister wants a tough building industry watchdog while fresh cloud looms over Arthur Sinodinos.
I pray Tia's killer didn't sleep last night
Comment: Last night, I pray, sleep eluded Tia Palmer's killer.
The D word dogging Quirk's campaign
Graham Quirk has a big problem, and it's all about the D word.
Time's up on culture of ill-treatment by insurance companies
Insurance companies need to quit the brazen ill-treatment and deliver what was promised.
'I hated it': A short complaint long remembered
"I hated it": It was a note of complaint, lacking empathy, and never to be forgotten.
Lewd photos stench hangs over library
Nothing about sleazy photo case sits comfortably with best practice.
Wake up, Jeff! Voters recall when you were deputy
So former deputy premier Jeff Seeney believes that his considerable talents are being overlooked, as he languishes on the State Opposition backbench.
Madonna King: Graduating with distinctions
Why are we steadfastly sticking to a system, whether it's the OP score or the 2018 ATAR plan, which acknowledges nothing other than a student's academic test scores?
Pet hates: Why high-rises can't ban your dog
Should you be able to keep a dog in a high rise block of units?
Madonna King: A mother's desperate plea to her son's bully
A mother has made a desperate and impassioned plea to the bullies who made her son's school life hell every day in 2015.
Happysnaps, or child pornography?
Nude photos of your little one can now be deemed pornographic.