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Culture warriors defend Anzacs from behind their laptops
Diggers died for freedom and democracy, which includes a large dollop of free speech.
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Diggers died for freedom and democracy, which includes a large dollop of free speech.
Is there any political tradition more dispiriting and stupid than the pre-budget dance?
The truth is mysterious, with plenty of fake news obscuring the important issue at stake.
Mark Latham has become the media martyr he always wanted to be.
Jacqueline Maley is as offended as you are by what she's written here, but this could be permitted under proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
For several months I have been cheating on Leigh Sales, my usual 7.30pm weeknight date. I feel some shame about it, but if I'm honest, no real regret.
It is a straight-up case of what I would call the Enormous Pull of the Tiny Face. It was also confirmation of one of politics' saddest trends – those politicians who have their priorities straight, often leave politics, because they have their priorities straight.
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.
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.
The veil of choice for anti-Muslim sentiment in this country and abroad has become concern for the rights of women.
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