What Bernardi's curious lunch says about Abbott and his mates
Cory Bernardi is keeping some very interesting company and it should worry the Liberal Party.
Call an ambulance! Barnaby Joyce is blowing a fuse
Face reddens until it is deep puce, veins on his neck and forehead bulge and he begins jabbering.
Why we need to give a Gonskini
Both sides of politics now agree about giving a Gonski. But we need to give a Gonskini, too.
Same-sex politics is very personal
Anyone who takes a public personal stand on this issue, regardless of which side, is brave.
Local stories and jobs are worth saving
If Australian media flounders, we'll lose local news, analysis and drama production.
IT revolution's just begun, and we're not ready
Technology is radically transforming our society. Prepare for the fallout.
Shameful tax dodge makes mockery of lowest-price tenders
The shameful tax dodge by multinationals is undermining the project tendering process.
We've forgotten why we spend public money
So much government aid goes to people who don't need it, and politicians seem helpless to stop it.
Gonski 2.0 still leaves a class divide
Australian schools are falling behind world standards because we waste money where it's not needed.
When worlds collide: Hanson's reality check
For Pauline Hanson, being outed as bigotry's uncritical conduit was like hitting a brick wall.
Trump and Salman find some common ground
The leaders of America and Saudi Arabia have more in common than you might think.
War against terror is a war, after all
Throughout the Sydney siege, the NSW Police never relied on the expert outsiders who were at hand.
Lindt siege: Monis was the murderer but face it, our system failed too
The community must confront one issue, lest police once again allow inaction to play the predominant role in the outcome.
We're at war and we're not ready
Australia isn't 'sleepwalking' into war; we already did that.
Does increased defence spending make a country safer?
Does setting an arbitrary target for defence spending, rather than carefully judging the likely strategic threats, actually make a country any safer?
Dumping on Trump and a halal grilling: a day at estimates
Welcome to what are blithely known as Senate estimates committee hearings.
Meet the real high taxpayers. They're not high earners
The budget pushed low-income earners' marginal tax rate up towards 100 per cent.
Advance Australia Fair is a mid-tempo dirge and needs to go
We should love our national anthem not fall asleep because of it.
Birmingham's subtle style
Government ministers bring very different approaches to the job.
Budget squeezes women without NDIS cover
The Turnbull government's budget measures may hit women earning below-average wages with an effective marginal tax rate of 100 per cent.
A long time ago, in a budget reality far away ...
The economic future that the Treasury has forecast for Australia is, sadly, a nonsense.
Twiggy has discovered what many us won't: giving makes us feel good
With $400 million, Twiggy Forrest has discovered what many us won't: giving makes us feel good - and research shows he's right.
Democracy at a price - NSW Liberals charged to attend gathering on party's future
Liberal Party members in New South Wales will be charged $199 to attend a two-day talk-fest.
Peter Dutton's fake war on asylum seekers
Peter Dutton's war on "fake refugees" is misleading, based on a false premise and dangerous in that it pre-empts a fair hearing of claims for refugee status.
Watch out, clever ones, the 'bogans' have had enough
A government's job is to make the best decisions possible in the long-term interest of all of us.
How top cops massage the news
Police have long had a very slippery understanding and application of sub judice laws.
Remembering the forgotten people
These elegant, thought-provoking addresses still reverberate 75 years later, even among critics,
Why AFL will not take off in China
If developing an Aussie Rules competition in the US is difficult, having one in China is well-nigh impossible.
Hermits and spaceports vanish, but the river abides
The crocodiles, they say up north, finally got old Hugo, the hermit of the Olive River.
Trump troubles extend to allies
Imagine if you read this news story: Malcolm Turnbull has sacked the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police for continuing investigations into past links between Mr Turnbull's office and a foreign government. The extraordinary move coincides with explosive new revelations of impromptu intelligence sharing with that same government, by the Prime Minister himself. This fictional rendering conveys the gravity of events now swirling around Donald J Trump's idiosyncratic administration by posing the question: what would happen if an Australian PM leant on the AFP to forget past links with a foreign government; free lanced on sensitiv
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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.