Turnbull can't lead a centre-right party with centre-left instincts
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
The Turnbull government is said to have had its best fortnight yet but its three cited achievements were all capitulations to someone else.
As with so many ACT government deals, the problem is the look of the thing, rather than the thing itself.
Bring it in tight. Those of us who are climate change deniers need to be singing from the same hymn sheet.
In the time that Australia has had four prime ministers, the Labor Party's organisation has had just one leader.
That was the first word of the little bloke that I heard. Gogs. Meaning dogs.
Trump's arrival presages possibly the biggest and most traumatic upheaval to the global power balance since the Second World War.
And so it came to pass that in the Year of our Lord, 1921, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the galaxies were flying apart. Behold, he said, the universe was expanding. And so the Unbelievers declared that science was capable of explaining everything and that God - if not dead - was surely suffering a terminal illness.
It's a slippery slope, this growing old. I realised it this week when I celebrated a birthday. Oh, all right, 58 since you asked.
Captain Fantastic, the new Viggo Mortensen release, may be the year's best cast and scripted film. It's also the worst named.
Times are tough for narcissists on the public stage – the ascension of The Donald has created so much noise and bedazzlement that you have to work a lot harder to get noticed.
Something strange is going on with the weather. It might be spring, but that hasn't stopped snow falling in the ACT.
Give migrants a break. They'll be speaking lazy Strine with an upward inflection in no time.
There's a reason Australia's policies are applauded by some very unsavory people around the world.
Following the supervision of 120 hours of driving (there are still 100 to go) a license will mean the end of our duty as taxi driver, for him anyway. Curfews will be a thing of the past. So, too, sobriety (I assume), at least when he's not driving.
Plan to poison SS officers with bread painted with arsenic
We found a tiny standing-spot, squished between a wall and a man with an enormous Tontine-pillow arse - yielding yet firm.
The signs are there for all to see. The handsomely government-subsidised aged-care industry model is set on a trajectory of decline.
We're on the cusp of a global care boom and Australia has a lot to offer.
This industrial dispute carries a warning for many Australians.
The people are driving America's malaise. The same can't be said in Australia.
Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.
Because nothing says "courage" or "responsible adulthood" like being a tourist in an active warzone just for kicks.
Their increasingly bitter split is sadly nothing unique – more than 46,000 Australian couples will also go their separate ways this year.
It happens to me a little bit in this little old town we live in. You look really familiar people will say.
Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson both fail the tests of logic and history when they call for bans on Muslim immigration.
We need to act now to avoid traffic congestion and pollution in the future as the population rises.
The term "gamble responsibly" is "essentially a cover for dishonesty and blame-shifting".
It's no secret that his government is in a rut.
Will adopting the mantras of the far-right help centre-right parties in the long term?
The Deputy Prime Minister would blame the death of Elvis Presley on renewable energy if it helped competitors in the big polluting fossil fuel industries.