Jig is up on our outsourced refugee hells
Nauru and Manus Island have served the Coalition well, right up to the election, but there are ominous signs that the music may stop leaving us without a seat.
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Jack Waterford
Jack Waterford is the former Editor-at-large at The Canberra Times and writes a regular column
Hard to know what the Reserve Bank really thinks
To say that statements by Reserve Bank officials are usually delphic is a cliche, even among those who know very little either of Greek antiquities or of Brewer's dictionary of phrase and allusion.
Ceaseless activity is cutting no ice
Could anything be more dispiriting than being a law enforcement warrior in the war against drugs? Last year police and customs agents seized record amounts of "ice", or crystal methamphetamine, now clearly enemy No. 1 in the illicit drug game.
Turnbull's youth abuse royal commission is doomed to fail
The commission, however searching, is destined to be an expensive distraction and waste of time.
It's all downhill from here for Bill Shorten
Bill Shorten surprised his enemies as much as his friends with a federal election he almost won.
Was Mrs May waving red rag at John Bull?
I do not recall many more remarkable speeches as that of Theresa May, the new prime minister of Britain.
Is this the best thing to ever happen to Turnbull?
A day may come when Malcolm Turnbull will come to see the solid kicking he received from voters last week as the best thing that ever happened to him.
Has Turnbull swapped potency for power?
So what was all that about? Was there ever a more pointless election? Does anyone know what it resolved?
Pygmies blocking Barr's view of the future
I expect this news outlet will be around when the Chief Minister goes out the door.
How Shorten is managing to outflank Turnbull
Bill Shorten appears to have grown in stature during the election campaign. Malcolm Turnbull seems diminished.
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