Strewth
Citizen bane
Stephen Parry has — figuratively speaking — asked the nation to hold his beer.
Barnaby finds a foe
Rob Taber wants to pop the Canberra bubble but the independent wants to stay clean in the process.
Oarsome chat
It’s never a dull moment with the Turnbull government, unless the PM is out for a paddle.
Cash 22
The government at week’s end leaves us pondering Wile E. Coyote, with the charred remains of an ACME box in his hands.
Fleece circus
Australian Wool Innovation chairman Wal Merriman has an interesting relationship with the fourth estate.
Sign of the times
Was October 22, 2007, the day the government realised the media had cottoned on to this doodad known as email?
Lost ditch effort
A new iron curtain has descended across the Tasman now that Jacinda Ardern is NZ PM-elect.
Just a journo
The Treasurer may have other views, but our economics editor knows a thing or two.
In so many birds
‘Fantastic senator’ Malcolm Roberts sends reporters scurrying to their dictionaries.
Abetz v sex
The Tasmanian senator gets hot and heavy over the ABC’s Snapchat guide to better sex.
Bill’s over the ’ill
Kevin Foley once said he looked forward to Labor conferences “like one would look forward to root-canal therapy”.
Stop the goats
Tony Abbott welcomes climate change and offers a frank assessment of his own government.
Paws for thought
A radio chat with Malcolm Turnbull yields one of the better uses of “on reflection” we’ve heard in a little while.
Baad to the bone
Nick Xenophon has so far co-starred with giraffes, goats, mules and cows during his political career.
Latham, Jones out to launch
Alan Jones does a damned fine book launch, and did so again yesterday for Mark Latham’s latest tome, Outsiders.
