Turnbull goes full Aussie on Trump's coat-tails
You can go too far with this guff, especially if the tone of your message jars with your public persona.
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Nick O'Malley
Nick O'Malley is a senior writer and a former US correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Why does the government keep pursuing policies it knows won't work?
Sometimes governments stick with policies for political rather than practical reasons. But how bad must they be? And at what cost?
The source of Mark Latham's anger is hard to comprehend
As long as Mark Latham was on the public stage that anger shimmered and glinted, always just in view.
It's far too soon to write-off Hanson and the populist right
It is way too soon write off One Nation, and more particularly, the threat of the populist right in Australian politics for at least two reasons.
Hanson's distrust of experts runs deeper than vaccines
It is no surprise that Pauline Hanson came out against vaccines. The tell is there in her language if you listen closely enough.
Trump gives allies whiplash with mixed messages
You could have given yourself whiplash trying to keep abreast of Donald Trump's view of foreign affairs – and more particularly America's network military alliances.
Taxpayers should be lining up to thank Sussan Ley
Monday must seem a long time ago to Sussan Ley.
Fake news is a real thing, and it is not what Donald Trump says it is
There is a lot of false rhetoric being tossed around today about fake news, which is a pity because though it is new, fake news is an important term that means something specific, a term worth resuscitating if it is not already dead.
From traitor to patriot: how the US right fell for Julian Assange
"A dead man can't leak stuff," Bob Beckel once huffed of Julian Assange on a Fox News panel. "This guy's a traitor, he's treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I'm not for the death penalty, so...there's only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch."
Welcome to politics in 2017: a festival of small ideas
If it really is true that people start the year as they intend to go on, there are some solid indications from Canberra that we are in for a long year full of small ideas.
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