Pig-headed Abbott shoots off his mouth
It is not the first time the porcine has become political.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
'It's a principle, it's not about me': Abbott's new quest
People, says Tony Abbott, "are being neurotic" about his push for greater democratisation within the NSW Liberal Party.
The Budgie Nine prove that Australian manhood is in desperate need of an update
It is unfair to level a charge of cultural insensitivity against the so-called Budgie Nine, who were under arrest for inflicting their personal brand of privileged homoerotic loutishness on the people of Malaysia.
The narcissists are winning in the arms race of outrage
Times are tough for narcissists on the public stage – the ascension of The Donald has created so much noise and bedazzlement that you have to work a lot harder to get noticed.
Government's welfare crackdown more lazy than the 'bludgers'
It may come as a surprise to many new mothers, as they gaze into the eyes of their new small love and recover from the gross physical assault of birth, to learn that they are actually bludgers.
A tale of two speeches: one a cut above the other
You only get one crack at a maiden speech, so you've got to make it count.
Gay marriage battle echoes suffragettes' plight
William Knox, the first member for Kooyong, was a man of big moustache and loud opinion.
Mehajer's video is the vilest kind of man-howl, by the vilest kind of man
Salim Mehajer is a nasty peacock who has swapped plumage for plastic surgery, a Narcissus with an Instagram account instead of a pond.
What we should learn from the case of Harriet Wran
Is there anything better than a good downfall story? Harriet Wran's tale has it all – drugs, murder, mental illness and the essential binding ingredient of sex.
'Outsider' Hanson is just part of the system now
There are many highlights in the forthcoming SBS documentary about Pauline Hanson, quite apart from the realisation that the heroine's '90s wardrobe is now being worn by the hipsters of inner city Sydney and Melbourne.
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