Men, are they just too emotional to govern?
It seems they have difficulty mastering their anger, resentment and jealousy, and resisting the emotional surges that cause them to forget national interest in favour of self-interest.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Vulgar insult machines are edging towards mainstream here, too
Provocateurs such as Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right, performatively gay internet fake-news punk who this week lost his "journalism" job and his book deal, will always have the same safe space they retreat to when their views are deemed to have crossed a line.
How anti-Muslim prejudice gets dressed up as feminism
The veil of choice for anti-Muslim sentiment in this country and abroad has become concern for the rights of women.
Our national debate summed up in one banal bloke-ism
It took only a day of argument before someone resorted to using the F word. The first parliamentary week of the year was off to an auspicious start: a sophisticated national debate over which party leader belongs where on the Monopoly board.
Turnbull's 'grey rock' move will work on narcissistic Trump
Any world leader who has to deal with Donald Trump should stack their bedside tables with literature on pathological narcissism – it will provide a better playbook for the 45th presidency than libraries political analysis or history.
With friends like Trump who needs enemies?
Donald Trump has been US President for less than a week but such is his unbounded, orange-hued power, he is already casting a shadow over Australian politics.
There's a sure-fire budget fix. But politicians don't have the guts
There is one simple thing politicians could do right now, that would save the budget millions, or even billions, of dollars over the next generation.
Here's how to take back Christmas from the politically correct brigade
Few things say Christmas quite like a rant by 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley about how political correctness has ruined Christmas.
Australia, welcome to your new climate change policy
Australia is supposed to be immune to fact-free, angry populism. But our democratic consensus is fragile too.
The economic crunch that could usher in an equality revolution
Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.
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