A tale of two speeches: one a cut above the other
You only get one crack at a maiden speech, so you've got to make it count.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Gay marriage battle echoes suffragettes' plight
William Knox, the first member for Kooyong, was a man of big moustache and loud opinion.
Mehajer's video is the vilest kind of man-howl, by the vilest kind of man
Salim Mehajer is a nasty peacock who has swapped plumage for plastic surgery, a Narcissus with an Instagram account instead of a pond.
What we should learn from the case of Harriet Wran
Is there anything better than a good downfall story? Harriet Wran's tale has it all – drugs, murder, mental illness and the essential binding ingredient of sex.
'Outsider' Hanson is just part of the system now
There are many highlights in the forthcoming SBS documentary about Pauline Hanson, quite apart from the realisation that the heroine's '90s wardrobe is now being worn by the hipsters of inner city Sydney and Melbourne.
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.
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.
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