Anne Summers is a Fairfax Media columnist.
As we all wait in fear and trepidation to see what the new US President Donald Trump will do, to his country and to the world, including our region, it is utterly dispiriting to realise how ill-equipped our own political leaders are.
Many Australians like to think of the British as stuffy, toffy and class-bound by their centuries of royal and aristocratic hierarchy and privilege. This view was reinforced by the parliamentarians' expenses scandal a few years back, when we chortled over the British MP claiming for the maintenance of his moat.
I get at least one a week. An email from a dissatisfied customer wanting a refund, or to exchange a product, from the Ann Summers sex shop chain.
I am seriously thinking of moving to Melbourne. Not for the coffee, or the food, both arguably better than Sydney's, and certainly not for the weather.
The NSW government was prepared to shut down Sydney nightlife because of the shocking and tragic death of two boys but seems unwilling to step up on anything like a similar scale when it comes to the far higher toll of domestic violence.
The dream of a woman finally reaching the Oval Office and becoming President of the United States has had to be deferred, heaven knows for how long.
If Hillary Clinton wins on November 8 she will have forged a remarkable and unprecedented political trail: the first woman in more than 200 years of American democracy to win the Presidency, and the first former First Lady to become Commander-in-chief.
Self-proclaimed women-protectors are slithering back to their pit.
To me this is just one more example of Mike Baird waging war on the city's working class.
Trump is causing some couples to face hard truths.
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