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The PM's hysterical nonsense
Malcolm Turnbull's job is to calm the fires, not bloody well stoke them.
Peter FitzSimons is an Australian journalist and author, based in Sydney. He is also a former Wallabies player.
Malcolm Turnbull's job is to calm the fires, not bloody well stoke them.
So, I've got this right, yes? On the one hand, we have the Catholic Church maintaining it will make no change in its protocol about the sanctity of the confessional. And it maintains that, despite the fact that – as just revealed by the Criminal Justice report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse – it has presided over cases like the one in Rockhampton where Father Michael McArdle was forgiven no fewer than 1500 times by 30 of his fellow priests for raping children in his care.
When you know where to look for them, you really do just see "lefties" everywhere.
I didn't think Senator Brandis had it in him. You didn't think Senator Brandis had it in him. But, he did.
The unremarkable thing about the plebiscite on marriage equality is that it really has unleashed precisely the demonisation of gays that we all feared would happen, just as we had predicted would happen.
Bill Shorten arrived early for the gala dinner of the Australian Republic Movement, left late, and shook hands or had his photo taken with damn nigh all of the throng of 900 ARM members there.
Oh, the infamy. My "sister from another mister", Julia Baird, comes out with a deeply researched essay for ABC News, with a story also on the ABC's 7.30 noting a shocking pattern of domestic violence by some church-going men against their wives – in part because of their adherence to a strict interpretation of biblical lore which that says the man of the household is the head of his wife, who should submit to him.
It is terrific that the right wing of politics is at last getting interested in the rebellion, as there really is a lot of inspiration in it for the right – even if it is late to the party.
A strange and wonderful thing happened in the delightful South Coast burgh of Berry last Thursday night, at 8.11 pm.
A good chunk of the Turnbull government is wildly off the pace when it comes to renewable energy.
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