Wake up Australia: the Sam Dastyari incident proves you're racist
When men like this are able to openly hunt a Muslim man in a public bar, the claim that Australia is not racist is blown out of the water.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Ice-cream wars: the Young Libs' social media fail and why it matters
Being both young and politically active, members of the NSW Young Liberals are supposed to "get" social media.
Conservatives will prolong the gay marriage debate - it's their core business
In building a voter base for his new party, the Australian Conservatives, Cory Bernardi has one crucial constituency locked down: cake-makers and florists who object to same sex marriage, and who refuse to be forced to frost a rainbow sponge for the gays, or curate a posy for lesbians.
Why a female tank engine is good social engineering
Why is there only one lady Smurf? Of all the questions, existential and otherwise, that parenthood throws up, this is one I never expected to haunt me as it does.
This is the only way Abbott's vendetta will end
What is Abbott's end game? Does he still harbour leadership hopes? One frontbencher I spoke to this week says absolutely, yes,
Identity crisis has left Senate in a muddle
The government may be chastened by its own brush with un-Australianness.
Abbott on energy: king of the political gaslight
It seems no raw onion is safe from the jaws of Tony Abbott. He ate another one this week, only a few days after he admitted it had "probably" been a mistake to eat his first onion.
Footballers v family values: I know whose side I am on
I imagine to be gay right now must feel similar to being a woman in the 19th century, when a bunch of men with mutton-chop whiskers spent decades earnestly outlining reasons why you should not be allowed to vote.
Three reasons why the Republic will get up, one day
Embarrassment is not a reason to enact constitutional change, and yet, isn't it getting a bit sad how clingily Australia hangs off the skirts of an institution its own members are, at best, ambivalent towards?
Tony and Kevin are politics' worst retirees
Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd lost the top job, but can't let go or move on for the sake of their own parties.
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