Australia Day must be preserved as history intended: in July
Why are all these unpatriotic vandals determined to hold Australia Day in January? Have they no respect for history?
Turnbull 2016 report card: must try harder
A lot of last minute saves are looking like seeds of bigger problems waiting to happen for the Turnbull government in 2017.
Fancy a flutter on your doomed-to-fail US refugee deal, Dutton?
Does Peter Dutton genuinely believe the US is going to take the refugees on Nauru and Manus Island? Let's find out!
Forget left and right: this is the new split in politics
Turns out you lose people's trust if you keep transparently lying to them for long enough. Who knew?
Why are freedom of speech warriors such a bunch of crybabies?
You can't say that all speech should be free and then hide behind lawsuits and tantrums when someone says something you don't like, guys.
Turnbull must condemn Dutton's unacceptable racism
A government minister singling out a specific Australian ethnic group for condemnation is either unacceptably racist, or totally OK. I'm going with the former.
Turnbull is about to find out if the election was worth it
It's going to be a colourful final two weeks of parliament - but how many senators will make it to the end of the year?
Let's count the ways Dutton is wrong about immigrants
Does it strike you as odd that we keep having anti-immigrant Immigration Ministers? Maybe we should look at changing that.
Turnbull can't be battling the elite: he is the elite
The problem for Turnbull is that he's uniquely ill-placed to frame himself as a working-class hero since he's the least working-class leader the nation has ever had.
We haven't seen the last of Australia's 'rise of the deplorables'
If this is indeed the rise of the deplorables, we're gonna need a bigger basket.
There could never be an Australian Trump… right?
We moderate types really, really, really need to do a better job of bringing people with us.
Anxious about the result? Try the US Election Drinking Game
Why watch the end of American democracy alone when you can do so with your old friend Sweet Lady Booze?
Why Scott Ludlam's depression leave is important - for you
Maybe take a second to ask yourself: are you OK?
What the hell is wrong with Australia's minor parties?
As Family First's Bob Day and One Nation's Rob Culleton have made clear this week, our minor parties don't appear to be attracting Australia's best and brightest.
You were both wrong, actually. Now fix it
Governing is a difficult job - but that's the job the government signed up for. If they can't manage it we might need to readvertise the position.
Nothing says leadership like a desperate, cynical smokescreen
The Coalition finally show they can agree on something: the need to unnecessarily torment people for no sane reason.
Stop moaning about Halloween and join the party
Unless you're moaning in a cartoonishly ghostlike sort of a way, of course, in which case you're entirely on message.
Good news: swearing about politicians is now officially sanctioned
The legal precedent for public f-bomb deployment has been set.
The impossible conundrum behind Morrison's housing plan
Of all of the political weasel words beloved by our current crop of government representatives, "reform" is possibly the most insidious.
Finally, Abbott and Turnbull don't have to pretend to be friends
It's OK, Liberal Party. You finally don't need to keep pretending that everything's cool.
Generation X is the forgotten loser of the generation war
Reality bites as we're caught between our parents' generation angrily shaking their fists at the natural passage of time and the digital natives in our offices who know how Snapchat works.
Hanson's new constituency: online gamers
Who speaks for the unfairly fragged? One Nation, apparently.
Paying tax is the greatest bargain we ever made
Paying tax is an act of pure patriotism and dammit, we should celebrate that.
Turnbull's first priority isn't actually leading the country
Sorry to ruin your angry pub conversations about "if only we had proper leaders!", but running the country is a second-string prime ministerial priority at best.
Why Turnbull should be looking over his shoulder
It's very easy to look at the current position of Malcolm Turnbull - whose talent for legislative inaction, internal disunity, and massive public relations own goals rivals that of his predecessor - and assume his days are numbered, but there have been two things that have largely ensured his safety as leader.
Wearing flags never ends well, so stop doing it
If you're deliberately trying to provoke people, perhaps it's a tad undignified to then complain about how people subsequently got all provoked.
Five more toothless parliamentary inquiries for Turnbull to announce
This royal commission-avoiding banking inquiry might be just the beginning of letting expensive colour and movement replace actual accountability.
The reckless ballad of the Wyatt Colonial Roy
Because nothing says "courage" or "responsible adulthood" like being a tourist in an active warzone just for kicks.
Poor people do pay for schools with their taxes, Scott Morrison
The Treasurer reminds poor people that maybe they could send their kids to better quality schools if they'd stop selfishly being so poor all the time.
Will Hanson move when Australia has same-sex marriage?
After all, we'd hate for her to look like a fool - right?