Malcolm's perfect storm
Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a perfect storm, his government being assailed for making life harder for the less well off while certain of his ministers are seen to behave like the rich and famous.
Michael Gordon is the political editor of The Age.
Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a perfect storm, his government being assailed for making life harder for the less well off while certain of his ministers are seen to behave like the rich and famous.
Sussan Ley has blown Malcolm Turnbull's cover. She has resigned not because she concedes any breach of the rules covering politicians' travel or the Prime Minister's code of ministerial conduct.
Not once in her media conference at Albury did she say sorry to the public for not just one, but a number of errors of judgment when it comes to spending their money.
Sussan Ley's mea culpa for slugging the taxpayer for a trip to the Gold Coast when she bought a Main Beach apartment is hopelessly inadequate and will not be the end of the matter.
Heath Minister Sussan Ley's conduct invites the "pub test" at the precise time of year when many Australians, drink in hand, are extremely well-placed to apply it.
It's time to end our dirty little secret
"The worst we can do is to take this partnership for granted," Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared more than six years ago, when he became the first Indonesian president to address Australia's parliament in 2010.
 Three more asylum seekers on Manus Island have been charged with public drunkenness and resisting arrest after an incident on Monday night.
Manus Island MP Ronny Knight has declared that two asylum seekers who say they were bashed by police and PNG immigration officials on New Year's Eve "deserved what they got".
Faysal Ishak Ahmed carried a deep secret and a burning fear during his years in detention on Manus Island, long before he became the fourth asylum seeker to die after seeking protection in Australia and being sent to Papua New Guinea.
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