Another birther plot nipped in the bud
In this new world of alternative facts, believing your eyes is not actually as sure a bet as it once was.
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Annabel Crabb
Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.
Berejiklian welcomed to public cervix
I would like to take a few moments, if I may, to salute the human uterus.
Changing those star-spangled stripes
The advent of President Donald Trump has made life extremely difficult for a vulnerable community subgroup, over whose rights the Orange One has demonstrated himself endlessly prepared to trample.
Ministers spare no expense in their devotion to the public
Fear and confusion has gripped the famously laid-back community of the Queensland Gold Coast, as the residents of the popular retirement strip speculate on the nature of a substantial but as-yet undisclosed public health crisis threatening the region.
The most controversial thing a woman can wear
As 2016 careens to its conclusion with all the elegance of a golf buggy captained by a sleep-deprived ice freak in a Santa suit, it is probably unsurprising that quite so much of its penultimate fortnight would be spent, internationally, arguing about women with controversial pants.
Politicians should come with a trigger warning
Political correctness is – it's now universally accepted in this country, or by anyone with a brain at least – out of control.
Weird is the new normal in Parliament
That seeing One Nation, ambling across the courtyard accompanied by Jean-Claude van Damme, did not at the time seem especially weird gives you an idea of how off-the-charts bonkers much of the final parliamentary fortnight has been.
The forgotten milestone that shows how far we have come
Many working women who noticed the recent headlines about the gender pay gap being stuck rather firmly at about 16 per cent will have raised their eyes silently heavenward and wondered if this stuff will ever change.
Where will Angry White Man strike next?
A kind of madness has come over the world.
Trump and Obama have a few things in common
There's a great story – possibly apocryphal – about the former Illinois governor, senator and diplomat Adlai Stevenson, drawn from one of his historic electoral whuppings by Dwight Eisenhower, against whom Stevenson twice ran for president in the 1950s.
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