How anti-Muslim prejudice gets dressed up as feminism
The veil of choice for anti-Muslim sentiment in this country and abroad has become concern for the rights of women.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Our national debate summed up in one banal bloke-ism
It took only a day of argument before someone resorted to using the F word. The first parliamentary week of the year was off to an auspicious start: a sophisticated national debate over which party leader belongs where on the Monopoly board.
Turnbull's 'grey rock' move will work on narcissistic Trump
Any world leader who has to deal with Donald Trump should stack their bedside tables with literature on pathological narcissism – it will provide a better playbook for the 45th presidency than libraries political analysis or history.
With friends like Trump who needs enemies?
Donald Trump has been US President for less than a week but such is his unbounded, orange-hued power, he is already casting a shadow over Australian politics.
There's a sure-fire budget fix. But politicians don't have the guts
There is one simple thing politicians could do right now, that would save the budget millions, or even billions, of dollars over the next generation.
Here's how to take back Christmas from the politically correct brigade
Few things say Christmas quite like a rant by 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley about how political correctness has ruined Christmas.
Australia, welcome to your new climate change policy
Australia is supposed to be immune to fact-free, angry populism. But our democratic consensus is fragile too.
The economic crunch that could usher in an equality revolution
Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.
The soap opera that will dictate this Parliament
Early signs are promising that One Nation mark II is going to be as exciting as a Mexican telenovela and as cringe-making as the very best reality TV.
Is Melania Trump her husband's greatest victim or his biggest enabler?
The very title of "first lady" is bold confirmation of what many workplaces have been slow to acknowledge – that men holding down serious jobs can do them properly only if they have a woman behind the scenes.
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