Canberra is full of political delusions, but Turnbull's is the biggest
All eyes will be on the WA state election next Saturday to see how Labor polls.
$1.1m to fly diplomats home? Wouldn't cover a night at Monte Carlo
The Ad Hoc Ways and Means Committee at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is suffering the vapours as it attempts to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats, 113 cross-the-world business-class return flights, 113 hotel suites, an unknown number of splendid dining occasions, cigars, champagne, cognac and, naturally, limousines on demand, into a paltry $1.1 million.
Parliament reduced to a Kyrgios-Tomic tennis match. Where's a bartender?
A week in Parliament House, Canberra, has similarities these days with a tennis match involving Nick Kyrgios or Bernard Tomic.
Parliament's report card: too busy teasing other kids to get on with schoolwork
Hardly a week goes by without the publication of some well-thought-out, evidence-based paper recommending solutions to some of Australia's pressing economic and social problems – tax, education, health, defence, energy and so on.
'Where are the feminists?'
Feminism is not a handy tool to be inflated and deflated on request.
Only pests will benefit from pesticide agency move
Whether Barnaby Joyce or Pauline Hanson is the wiser statesman, the better politician or the more intelligent citizen is a moot question upon which few could hold a certain opinion, for now at least.
The personal isn't political
Discrediting a person has never been easier, prosecuting an idea has never been harder.
Fresh Russia controversy engulfs White House
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War crimes carried out on Syria's people by both sides, major UN report finds
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Why Malcolm Turnbull show leadership on penalty rates
  Malcolm Turnbull needs to change tack if he is to have any prospect of neutralising the debate on Sunday penalty rates in the retail and hospitality industries, let alone winning it – and change tack fast.
Public servants at Maccas? Blame Hanson
Barnaby Joyce's push for bureaucrats to go to the bush is motivated by fear of One Nation.
Labor-lite, Nationals-lite or One Nation-lite?
The Liberals always, eventually, drift away from the sensible centre.
Trump gives his presidency an A ahead of Congress address
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PM lines up Shorten as he warms to tough penalty-cut argument
There is no arguing with the proposition that Malcolm Turnbull has the tougher task on the Fair Work Commission's ruling to cut Sunday penalty rates.
Source of PM's poll problems far bigger than Abbott
The PM would do well to concede, even if it only in private, that there's more to his problem than Tony Abbott's sniping.
George W. Bush rebukes Donald Trump over Russia and defends the media
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The Turnbull effect: Labor leads Newspoll by 10 points as Hanson polls massive primary vote
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Turnbull holds his nerve as Liberals sweat on Abbott's next grenade
Malcolm Turnbull needs to find a solution to his Tony Abbott problem as Coalition MPs sweat on the next negative development in this toxic rivalry.
The key to understanding Turnbull's Tony problem
All of a sudden, Labor went quiet on Friday, right when it was gearing up to hammer Malcolm Turnbull over slashed penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers.
Pyrrhic victory for employers
Australia's economy is held back because wages are too low, not too high.
Iraq dossier timely lesson ahead of potential new Middle East venture
Any decision to increase Australia's commitment now, must imbibe the lessons of the last decade and a half.
The rise of blah-blah politics
There is an important discussion to be had about the penalty rates decision, but our politicians appear incapable of engaging in it, much less leading it.
Centrelink an easy target, but there are two sides
Could it be possible that Centrelink is sometimes unfairly castigated?
Civil war as Abbott lights up against Turnbull and Shorten sits back
Civil war has broken out in the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, and more importantly, within the government of Australia.
Abbott calls it; Turnbull won't be provoked. Not half . . .
If the Liberal Party were a schoolyard - and really, it is, isn't it? - there'd be excitable kids rushing about yelling that oldest of rallying cries: "fight, fight, fight".
In a time of hot, angry air, simple pleasures rule
I attended a country show a couple of weeks ago.
Is Tony Abbott preparing to strike?
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Penalty cut is 'WorkChoices-dangerous' for PM
After laying siege to the Australian labour fortress of weekend penalty rates over decades, employers have finally loosened a few bricks and clambered over the wall.
Hanson is out of touch when it comes to the cost of raising children
That people still hold hostile attitudes towards working parents, and particularly working mothers, is baffling.
It's what they wanted, but it hurts
Low wage growth is what the Coalition wanted. Within weeks of being sworn in as employment minister in 2013 Eric Abetz warned "weak-kneed employers" not to cave in to unreasonable demands.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.