This government needs to get its head around renewables
A good chunk of the Turnbull government is wildly off the pace when it comes to renewable energy.
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Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
Is it too much to ask that our own head of state be exclusively devoted to us?
Our constitution demands that if you are a servant of the people, you must not have even the tiniest whiff of divided loyalties. But what about the criteria to be our head of state?
Abbott, Bernardi: fossils in the age of renewables
Politicians might try to advance or retard the process of change, depending on how visionary or backwards they are, but economics runs the show regardless.
Musk mob's deal with SA sidesteps craven coal politics
Oh, how sweet it is. After all the haters, all the pile-ons, all the craven dinosaur politics which maintains that coal really does have a future, the SA government shimmies, shakes, steps left, steps right, bursts through into clear and announces its lithium battery deal.
Charging the cardinal is a tiny part of the story
Beyond my legal obligations, I genuinely have no firm view as to the likely guilt or innocence of Cardinal George Pell on the grave charges of child sexual abuse levelled against him, and do not seek to pre-judge the legal process in any way.
Big Sugar's not-so-sweet links to dietitians' group
We need a government that insists the public health infrastructure be freed from the influence of Big Sugar.
No fuss on the bus for powerful pollie
She was a woman laden down with folders getting on a packed bus at the bus-stop on Arterial Road by Tryon Road, Lindfield, facing the morning commute to the city two Fridays ago. The passengers barely blinked, in no small part because most of them had their eyes glued to their iPads, mobiles etc. But at least one bloke noticed Gladys Berejiklian, our Premier, was struggling and got up walked forward and offered her his spot, which she gratefully accepted, before settling down to work. I say, well done, Nick Farr-Jones, Wallaby World Cup winning captain of 1991. But do you?
Full marks to Turnbull for his Trump routine
Malcolm Turnbull did not make Donald Trump an international laughing stock. He merely played off that ready fact, and did it well too.
'Hopeless': five star food rating system has to go
Let's start with the fact that the food industry sits on the advisory panel. Ludicrous.
UK a step closer to becoming a republic
The British election results presages a fascinating possibility: Britain might soon have its first republican Prime Minister in Jeremy Corbyn. Even if May holds on this time, there is already talk of another election before Christmas.
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