One Nation, do you even speak to your WA candidates?
Here's an idea, Australian political parties: maybe meet your candidates *before* endorsing them.
Australia is meaner, dumber and more racist than 25 years ago
The Closing The Gap report should have been a wake up call about the way the government is failing First Australians. It won't be.
The Liberal-National marriage is on the rocks
How toxic must a relationship get for One Nation to seem like the sane, sexy alternative?
Why does South Australia create political weirdos?
Is there something in Adelaide's water? Well, yes, but that's not the entire story.
The safest risk Turnbull can take to keep his job
A free vote on marriage equality could prove Malcolm's still got some principles left.
The real danger of Bernardi's defection for Turnbull
Some men just want to watch the world burn (while also angrily denying that humans are changing the climate in any way).
You have to feel sorry for Turnbull and his hijacked week
How's that attempt to hit reset on the new year looking, Malc?
Our government is too cowardly to stand up to fascism
Turnbull's transformation from cosmopolitan forward thinking leader to craven coward making nice with the bullies is now complete.
The soulless video that sums up Sydney today
Tourism Victoria couldn't have written a better anti-Sydney campaign jingle than this hollow piece of dreck.
Why Barnaby Joyce is just going to get louder in 2017
Hey, you'd be yelling incoherently too if it was the only thing saving your party from oblivion.
Let's make 2017 the year Australia finally grows up
If our closest geopolitical allies jumped off a bridge, would Australia do it too? Because that looks like being the choice facing us right now.
How to choose a terrible song for your wedding or inauguration
Sure, just pick your event's song on the basis of the title alone. How could that not work?
With Sydney finally dead, Baird's work is done
Let's look at the legacy of the premier who bravely stood up to the weak and made the state safe for mining, property development, and casinos. Especially casinos.
Could 2017 already be the PM's worst year ever?
Between the scandals, internal discord and wildly unpopular policies, 2017 is already shaping up to be the Turnbull government's worst year since 2016.
Why 2017 Australian politics has already gone to hell
The internal Coalition battles for 2017 have already begun.
The plebiscite is finally unfunded, so why is it still Turnbull's policy?
Never mind a plan B; the government no longer have a plan A.
One Nation is doing exactly what it does best
Who'd have guessed that political renegades that play by their own rules might not be great at overlooking their differences for the common good?
Hey, Tony Abbott: take your own advice and do your job
Can someone gently break the news to Abbott that he's never going to be PM again?
The federal government presents A Tale of Two Taxes
The anti-tax government explains that taxes are bad (even if they're not taxes), but levies are fine (even if they are taxes). Got that?
The blind spot that shows this government's real opinion of women
Why should pollies do anything about saving lives when wearing ribbons is so much cheaper?
Dick Smith has gone from beloved entrepreneur to just another lobbyist
This sudden support of One Nation is less about immigration and more about rent-seeking for the aviation industry
Why I won't be supporting the Salvation Army this Christmas
Here's a tip, charities: maybe wait a few weeks after the high profile suicide of a bullied gay child before you start talking about how school anti-bullying programmes are oh-so-discriminatory.
Australia Day must be preserved as history intended: in July
Why are all these unpatriotic vandals determined to hold Australia Day in January? Have they no respect for history?
Turnbull 2016 report card: must try harder
A lot of last minute saves are looking like seeds of bigger problems waiting to happen for the Turnbull government in 2017.
Fancy a flutter on your doomed-to-fail US refugee deal, Dutton?
Does Peter Dutton genuinely believe the US is going to take the refugees on Nauru and Manus Island? Let's find out!
Forget left and right: this is the new split in politics
Turns out you lose people's trust if you keep transparently lying to them for long enough. Who knew?
Why are freedom of speech warriors such a bunch of crybabies?
You can't say that all speech should be free and then hide behind lawsuits and tantrums when someone says something you don't like, guys.
Turnbull must condemn Dutton's unacceptable racism
A government minister singling out a specific Australian ethnic group for condemnation is either unacceptably racist, or totally OK. I'm going with the former.
Turnbull is about to find out if the election was worth it
It's going to be a colourful final two weeks of parliament - but how many senators will make it to the end of the year?
Let's count the ways Dutton is wrong about immigrants
Does it strike you as odd that we keep having anti-immigrant Immigration Ministers? Maybe we should look at changing that.