With Sydney finally dead, Baird's work is done
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Let's look at the legacy of the premier who bravely stood up to the weak and made the state safe for mining, property development, and casinos. Especially casinos.
Let's look at the legacy of the premier who bravely stood up to the weak and made the state safe for mining, property development, and casinos. Especially casinos.
Between the scandals, internal discord and wildly unpopular policies, 2017 is already shaping up to be the Turnbull government's worst year since 2016.
The internal Coalition battles for 2017 have already begun.
Never mind a plan B; the government no longer have a plan A.
Who'd have guessed that political renegades that play by their own rules might not be great at overlooking their differences for the common good?
Can someone gently break the news to Abbott that he's never going to be PM again?
The anti-tax government explains that taxes are bad (even if they're not taxes), but levies are fine (even if they are taxes). Got that?
Why should pollies do anything about saving lives when wearing ribbons is so much cheaper?
This sudden support of One Nation is less about immigration and more about rent-seeking for the aviation industry
Here's a tip, charities: maybe wait a few weeks after the high profile suicide of a bullied gay child before you start talking about how school anti-bullying programmes are oh-so-discriminatory.
Why are all these unpatriotic vandals determined to hold Australia Day in January? Have they no respect for history?
A lot of last minute saves are looking like seeds of bigger problems waiting to happen for the Turnbull government in 2017.
Does Peter Dutton genuinely believe the US is going to take the refugees on Nauru and Manus Island? Let's find out!
Turns out you lose people's trust if you keep transparently lying to them for long enough. Who knew?
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.
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.
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?
Does it strike you as odd that we keep having anti-immigrant Immigration Ministers? Maybe we should look at changing that.
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.
If this is indeed the rise of the deplorables, we're gonna need a bigger basket.
We moderate types really, really, really need to do a better job of bringing people with us.
Why watch the end of American democracy alone when you can do so with your old friend Sweet Lady Booze?
Maybe take a second to ask yourself: are you OK?
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.
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.
The Coalition finally show they can agree on something: the need to unnecessarily torment people for no sane reason.
Unless you're moaning in a cartoonishly ghostlike sort of a way, of course, in which case you're entirely on message.
The legal precedent for public f-bomb deployment has been set.
Of all of the political weasel words beloved by our current crop of government representatives, "reform" is possibly the most insidious.
It's OK, Liberal Party. You finally don't need to keep pretending that everything's cool.
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