An important reminder about Winston Peters
New Zealand’s superpower prime minister Jacinda Ardern can do no wrong, it seems.
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Plibersek’s thoughts on travel claims
And spare a thought for Jane Caro, who has had rather a tough time of it with the NSW election.
Turnbull shows support for Libs
Football cheerleaders become the next grouping to succumb to political correctness.
Erdogan trying to deflect attention
Recep Tayyip Erdogan should take Bill Clinton’s simple, direct advice: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’.
Daley finds himself in a pickle
The NSW Labor leader joins John Howard and Geoffrey Blainey in a ‘rogues gallery’.
Western Civ is a recidivist racist
A modest submission to those about to nominate Jacinda Ardern for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Extremism from online columnist
The Guardian online’s commentary of the Christchurch massacre has gone over the top.
Something they can agree on
It seems there’s a flicker of a chance that Tony Burke’s dream from last year may yet be realised.
The harsh reality of media scrutiny
Having denied Patrick Moore was a founder, Greenpeace forgot its online history page.
Greenpeace denies fake co-founder
A former man living as a woman who became non-binary has admitted it was all a mistake.
A splash in The Australian makes waves at a sensitive national intelligence agency
ASIO’s ability to vet asylum-seekers was identified as a security risk in the Phelps bill.
It gets messy when compassionista journalists collide with the punters they ‘educate’
Perhaps the Wentworth by-election wasn’t speaking for the nation on border security.
Peter Dutton, Barrie Cassidy, Twitter and the beginning of a beautiful friendship
And as Labor eyes what eats bamboo shoots and doesn’t leave, the PM is focused on other beasts.
Like to hear a Christmas Island fable about asylum-seekers? Ask Brendan O’Connor
People-smugglers get the money, the government puts personnel at risk and may still be blamed.
All Tim Anderson’s supporters at Sydney Uni are saying is give anti-Semites a chance
Did Joan Kirner have an explosive temper, a short fuse or was she just very boring?
Shanghai Sam done like a dinner but Beijing Bob stands by the billion-dollar man
As one door closes in the Middle Kingdom, a well-oiled one opens in the Middle East.
‘Trust me, I’m a doctor and Nauru is worse than Auschwitz’ doesn’t wash with punters
Wentworth Lady is not for turning but Mr Shorten turns to putty in Peter Dutton’s hands.
Kevin Rudd the greatest revisionist of all when it comes to wasting $20 billion on NBN
Ken Henry can be blamed for many things, but not for telling Labor to kill people insulating houses.
When you’re on Twitter, you’re never more than a few tweets away from a total scold
And for a change of pace, we’ve chucked in a bit about Orwell and veggies free of charge.
Herald and Age give stage to Hamas defender who trumps Trump using Jews as props
A record of one-eyed reports and bias is no obstacle to getting published at Nine.
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