The dumbest reasons for a postal vote on marriage equality
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If you're more focused on fighting unwinnable culture wars than passing smart, necessary legislation, you take your advantages where you can get them, writes Andrew P Street.
If you're more focused on fighting unwinnable culture wars than passing smart, necessary legislation, you take your advantages where you can get them, writes Andrew P Street.
How has a seemingly smart man made such stupid strategic decisions?
Andrew P Street is preparing for an ugly fortnight of parliament.
You don't even need to monger any scares about radiation: nuclear energy isn't remotely the solution to Australia's self-created energy problem
At what point does honest discussion turn into deliberate trolling?
The danger with a company making a political statement is that customers tend to take it seriously.
…and other important lessons imparted by the birth of my awesome son.
Creating a new megadepartment might be unnecessary, but at least it'll be expensive and disruptive.
Why have the federal government deliberately ruled out using the only tools that might reduce housing prices? Because then they might succeed.
What sort of deal would be considered beyond the pale for One Nation voters? Now we know.
Why on Earth did the government embark upon this lose-lose battle again?
Yes, it sounds like a bad joke, but that's what politics has become in 2017.
The same government who started the week saying young people just need good jobs if they want to get ahead are ending it by ensuring young people are paid less.
Telling people that the way to get out of poverty is to be more rich isn't just unhelpful - it's deliberately insulting.
Kudos to the US President, a man who the grateful Swedes can proudly hail as their honorary "skrämmande rasistisk bedragare med avföring för hjärnor"!
Here's an idea, Australian political parties: maybe meet your candidates *before* endorsing them.
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.
How toxic must a relationship get for One Nation to seem like the sane, sexy alternative?
Is there something in Adelaide's water? Well, yes, but that's not the entire story.
A free vote on marriage equality could prove Malcolm's still got some principles left.
Some men just want to watch the world burn (while also angrily denying that humans are changing the climate in any way).
How's that attempt to hit reset on the new year looking, Malc?
Turnbull's transformation from cosmopolitan forward thinking leader to craven coward making nice with the bullies is now complete.
Tourism Victoria couldn't have written a better anti-Sydney campaign jingle than this hollow piece of dreck.
Hey, you'd be yelling incoherently too if it was the only thing saving your party from oblivion.
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.
Sure, just pick your event's song on the basis of the title alone. How could that not work?
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.
Between the scandals, internal discord and wildly unpopular policies, 2017 is already shaping up to be the Turnbull government's worst year since 2016.
The internal Coalition battles for 2017 have already begun.
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