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That Thinking Feeling

Springborg should consider Senate spot

Lawrence Springborg has announced his retirement from State Parliament.

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.

Twelve steps to redemption

"I didn't think, for a moment, that a man who didn't pay his taxes would be held up as a national role model," writes ...

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.

Woman, 62, has a baby and everyone else has an opinion

Why is it wrong to have a child at 62, and more than acceptable to have a child at 32, when a mother weights 138 kg and ...

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.

We can't vote Rosie, but we get Pauline

Pauline Hanson in her office in Albion, Brisbane, Queensland, 27 May 2016 (On her 62nd Birthday). Photo by Tertius Pickard

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".