Laming slap-down gave us a glimpse of pre-election Turnbull; more please
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's slap down this week of MP Andrew Laming was spectacular; one of those moments you want to play over and over on your Facebook feed for fun.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's slap down this week of MP Andrew Laming was spectacular; one of those moments you want to play over and over on your Facebook feed for fun.
It's what happened after Sussan Ley snapped up a Main Beach pad on a taxpayer-funded trip that sealed her fate.
At 87, Bob Hawke still happily sculls a glass for the crowd when they ask. Hence the cheer. But it would still be there without the beer.
Watch the fury of pensioners and their families influence the next poll.
Seven's CEO should do the right thing and show himself the door.
In some ways it's refreshing. But in other ways, it's utterly frightening.
Lawrence Springborg has become the faithful family Labrador of Queensland politics - universally liked and respected but not relied on by his masters to catch and kill a hearty dinner.
In search for enlightenment, I've headed to Donald Trump's America, where the promise is that soon things will be made great again.
This week I made a terrible mistake. It was inadvertent, and aimed at being super-organised ahead of the school holidays.
Dr Seuss, in Oh, The Places You'll Go! might have had you in mind.
Hello, my name is Madonna King, and I was wrong. I didn't believe, for one moment, that a narcissist as ignorant and vile as Donald Trump would be supported so strongly, across so many different voting groups.
Why the race to attribute blame when something terrible unfolds?
We've lost our trust in so much but one thing will help earn it back.
Donald Trump is a dill. But his support for the sexual assault of women - because that's what he was doing in the 2005 video - is downright dangerous.
We could blink, and wake up next year with One Nation forming part of a Queensland government.
Just imagine if you did what Liberal MP Steven Irons did. That is, you charged your customers, or clients, or patients $2000 to fly to your own wedding
Broadside delivered by American education expert Professor Diane Halpern, who says her claim is based on analysis and reviews of 1.5 million students.
Dastyari's pickle also raises another issue that is becoming just as big in the minds of many voters - and that's the increasing spectre of Chinese involvement in Australia.
Sometimes, probably like many mothers, I think of leaving a note for my husband, in case I die.
We could soon effectively rely on foreign aid to run electricity.
On the face of it, and in theory, 62 might be a touch too old to give birth to a child; for that reason the questions being raised by the case of a Tasmanian woman and her 78-year-old partner is understandable.
It's an image that should stay with us forever. Here in Australia, where we have the best of everything, a child is strapped to a bare restraint chair.
Western politics is more divided and bitter than at just about any time in the past century – but in America at least it's united by one thing.
Isn't it time we just left Gordon Nuttall alone?
Queensland's message to Malcolm Turnbull last Saturday was simple: TURN off the BULL.
The same-sex marriage plebiscite, scheduled in the weeks after Malcolm Turnbull's likely victory on Saturday, will upstage any of the nastiness we've seen in recent politics.
Sometimes it takes an 11-year-old to nail it. "Why are the politicians saying bad things about the other side," my daughter asked yesterday, "and not saying what they would do".
If Howard returned, a friend says, he would walk into PM's office.
A royal commission into our banks is needed for exactly the reasons the banks' bosses say it is not.
OK, Bill Shorten probably shouldn't have called Donald Trump barking mad.