Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Any world leader who has to deal with Donald Trump should stack their bedside tables with literature on pathological narcissism – it will provide a better playbook for the 45th presidency than libraries political analysis or history.
Donald Trump has been US President for less than a week but such is his unbounded, orange-hued power, he is already casting a shadow over Australian politics.
There is one simple thing politicians could do right now, that would save the budget millions, or even billions, of dollars over the next generation.
Few things say Christmas quite like a rant by 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley about how political correctness has ruined Christmas.
Australia is supposed to be immune to fact-free, angry populism. But our democratic consensus is fragile too.
Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.
Early signs are promising that One Nation mark II is going to be as exciting as a Mexican telenovela and as cringe-making as the very best reality TV.
The very title of "first lady" is bold confirmation of what many workplaces have been slow to acknowledge – that men holding down serious jobs can do them properly only if they have a woman behind the scenes.
Normal people who suddenly become unemployed eventually dust off their resumé and get back out there. Not prime ministers.
If you're a woman, it's starting to look as though 2016 might be actually just one giant bloopers reel, a series of insults so outrageous that they must have been staged as part of an out-takes special for a new series of Candid Camera.
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