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Blair: Teal drama brings us light amid doom and gloom election

Thank God for the colourful campaign distractions provided by the Teals, everybody’s favourite gang of weaponised Karens, writes Tim Blair

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Susan Smith, left, and Marion Calder, of For Women Scotland, celebrate after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between the feminist group and the Scottish government, in London, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Real women win against opponents of biology

Following prolonged judicial debate, Britain’s Supreme Court last week ruled that, in legally precise terms, women are women and men are men in an incredible win for reality, writes Tim Blair

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#BREAKING UPLOAD# NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION Labor BUS. DAY 12 09/04/2025 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail In NSW.Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Padds Market in the electorate of Sydney. Opening the new Hay Street Market at Paddys alongside Premier Chris Minns and the Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek. Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

Albanese leads Labor’s heroic fight against ‘girl germs’

The Albo-Tanya air kiss – Plibersek missed by a metre, which is admittedly better than my recent pickleball service game – may have also been part of a longstanding Labor pattern, writes Tim Blair.

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This election campaign is stuck in rehearsals

To this point, our national election campaign looks more like a severely under-rehearsed school play, writes Tim Blair.

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Bill Shorten has once again been pictured displaying his odd sausage sandwich eating technique while casting his election vote earlier today., , Who can forget the infamous 2016 photo showing the then-Labor Leader biting into the middle of the sausage sandwich, rather than from the end., , And it appears his technique hasn’t improved in the years since, with Mr Shorten being snapped today tucking into a democracy sausage in the same fashion., , He then took to Twitter to clear things up, claiming he was “vamping it up” for the cameras.

Corflutes, underdogs and sausage eating? Signs an election is here

Usually we have to wait until much closer to polling day to see the sort of antics we’ve seen of late, writes Tim Blair, but our never ending election season is already delivering.

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Burn, baby, burn: the climate kids are firing up

Tesla owners are now under siege around the world by more violent climate saviours, all because Elon Musk switched sides and teamed up with Donald Trump, writes Tim Blair.

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Can we please call time on the hostage puppies?

Money can only end starvation, poverty and pain if third world corruption and first world bureaucracy don’t consume it first, writes Tim Blair.

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Our role in Trump’s brutal bid to end a war

If we’re talking about an unwinnable conflict, then, it makes sense to contain losses rather than accrue them. This is Trump’s message, although surrounded by distracting inaccuracies, writes Tim Blair.

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Big oil is back and it’s bloody brilliant

The entire climate movement was an event for children – that’s why it was led by one for so long, writes Tim Blair.

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing a proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America aboard Air Force One, as it flies over the Gulf enroute to New Orleans, Louisiana on Febrary 09, 2025. For years, as disputes over names on the map riled up nationalist passions in several parts of the world, US policymakers have watched warily, trying to stay out or to quietly encourage peace. Suddenly, the United States has gone from a reluctant arbiter to a nomenclature belligerent, as President Donald Trump declared that the Gulf of Mexico will henceforth be called the

Blair: What if US tariffs were instead a carbon tax?

With a single comment on Monday, Trump set about converting Australian climate warriors into furious defenders of our previously planet-destroying metals and mining industries, writes Tim Blair.

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