The Red Pill ban: an absurdity only online activism could create
I learned nothing that surprised me apart from the fact a group of grown women call themselves the "Honey Badgers".
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Annabel Crabb
Annabel Crabb is a regular columnist, TV host and leading political commentator.
The PR industry has a lot to answer for
So many large organisations appear to have put their affairs into the hands of a semi-distracted chimp.
The rare joy Turnbull's sausage snub deprived us of
Otto von Bismarck, Germany's first Chancellor, is usually credited with the famous remark likening laws to sausages; for peace of mind, one should never see either being made.
There is nothing free about Mark Latham's speech
Before we lapse back into a state of national ennui, let's perhaps revisit a few basics.
Workplaces change with the times. Why can't Parliament?
Whenever a politician in this country announces their retirement for family reasons, one of two things happens.
Get your affairs in order: the revenge of the finance nerds is coming
An accountant shamed on the world stage. A Department of Finance viral video. The financial services world is highly unlikely to let these slights go unavenged.
Generation Y should be plotting a revolution
Fair dinkum – at what point is the youth of Australia going to rise up in a bloody revolution and put the rest of us against the wall? Surely, the moment must be close at hand.
The product placement that will kill your brand
People get terribly upset when politicians endorse products. Approximately half the English-speaking world, for instance, lost its mind recently when White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway took some time out of her busy day to advise Americans to take a look at Ivanka Trump's modest line of accessories for the humble working mom (to which list of accessories was later added, consternatingly, "The Oval Office Desk", when Ivanka posed sitting behind it).
Power politics don't get hotter than this
Watching politicians fight about energy policy is at once intriguing and confounding. On one hand, as South Australian residents last week will have gathered – or at least those of them with kerosene-fuelled ham radio sets conveniently at hand – there is a recognisable human dimension to the fight.
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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