When teeny-tiny political events have horrifying consequences
Unintended consequences are everywhere in politics. The rise of One Nation is one of them.
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Annabel Crabb
Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.
Forced emojis are the beginning of the end
I lived through the great text-speak campaign of the early 2000s, and I'm not going to break now.
Want to be a female world leader? Better take off your shoes
Five tips that will have you wielding power responsibly in no time at all.
The demise of Brangelina is the beginning of the end
The gossamer-thin membrane that separates real life from Celebrity Fantasy Island was rent irretrievably asunder on Tuesday.
Hanson is, sadly, deeply Australian
The Senator personifies a long and dark tradition for dealing with immigrants.
Why John Howard is wrong. Very wrong
One of the ancillary effects of our nation's current thing for vigorous prime ministerial crop-rotation is that the last guy to hold down the job for a full term – Mr John Winston Howard, private citizen – has smoothly assumed oracle status.
Parliament's gaudy scandal eclipses quiet achievers
On Thursday morning, a woman whose name will mean nothing to you stepped over the threshold of Parliament House for the first time. Her arrival occasioned very little interest, aside from the slight challenge posed to Parliament's rigorous security guidelines by the fact that she carried no identification, and signed her admission form with an "X".
Voters are getting the message Parliament isn't up to the job
If the Parliament cannot take its own decision-making powers seriously, why should it be surprised when voters don't either?
Future Olympics need more superfreaks, muggers and embarrassing names
The Olympics serve as a scorching quadrennial reminder of all the things most of us are not good at, like appearing publicly in Lycra, or throwing a pointy stick a really long way.
Gnashing of teeth at botched census a bit over the top
Nobody died here, to our knowledge. If you did die, please backdate your new census form accordingly.
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