Tony and Kevin are politics' worst retirees
They've lost the top job but are not yet out of their prime or ready to retire.
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
They've lost the top job but are not yet out of their prime or ready to retire.
Politicians are now invoking the greatest carbon price of them all – death.
The gays sure have a lot to answer for: same sex marriage policy is fast becoming the new climate policy, the combustion issue for the current cohort of Australian politicians, the intractable telescope-point to which the conservative side of politics has narrowed its focus. This is even more remarkable when you consider that gay marriage is an argument even conservatives know they have lost – which is why it doesn't appear anywhere in Tony Abbott's alternative conservative manifesto.
If you are a man reading this while seated in the gents', your smartphone clenched in your non-toilet paper hand as you take some quiet time to catch up on current affairs, feel no shame.
Prime Minister has called upon all new aspiring new citizens to "join us as Australian patriots".
It's time to bring abortion out of the legal shadows and remove the stigma from it entirely.
Why should the victims of prejudice take it upon themselves to soothe the prejudiced?
This Anne of Green Gables is complex and dark and some viewers are not coping.
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?
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