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 judge with the right stuff
An American shock jock has found himself caught on the wrong side of a Twitter storm.
Where’s the old vex pistol?
As Kevin Rudd gives advice to other nations, he’s showing worrying signs that he’s softening.
At GetUp this federal election, you can critique any party you like as long as it’s Liberal
But at least the group that isn’t a party is about to launch its very own election campaign.
Tale of two launches with very different vibes
With 12 days to go, Michael Daley looks on the way up and Gladys Berejiklian on the way down.
You’ve got to hand it to Julian Burnside — the man is not one to rush to judgment
Josh Frydenberg must be watching his brand new opponent with growing amazement.
Bonds underwear company breaks a gender barrier on International Women’s Day
When a strike is not a strike, it is a protest, according to the wisdom of Sally McManus.
Julia Gillard defends Australia against the charge that it’s the ‘epitome of misogyny’
A US congresswoman has predicted the end of the world — we only have 12 years left.
The sporting world seems to be transfixed by the debate on transgender athletes
Sense and nonsense aplenty on the right of men to become women and beat them at sport.
A high-profile human rights lawyer puts his hand up for a crack at being a Greens MP
Julian Burnside doesn’t want to know about the dark side of the Greens he wants to represent.
Salute Simon Birmingham for having the strength to cling to the beautiful dream
Let the Trade Minister’s idealism lift you, then let a Kiwi idiot bring you crashing back to earth.
Stop the votes and get on board with the glorious Elizabeth Farrelly revolution
The nation’s democracy must be destroyed in order to save it, opines the Nine columnist.
Aunty Ita, or how Australia learned to stop worrying and love the public broadcaster
Would Q&A work better as a digital ‘At my desk’ column from the queen of media?
Who needs food when the agitprop is juicy and visionary leaders are richly rewarded?
Like Russia and China before it, Venezuela is a red star destination for today’s political pilgrims.
It takes real character but it’s certainly possible to be stoic about the loss of others’ jobs
The beauty of green employment is there’s always somebody else’s money to subsidise it.
Fools don’t need to rush in these days, they just tweet where angels fear to tread
It took a bit to become an opprobrium magnet yesterday, but one man rose to the challenge.
Running into climate change strife
But in the excitement he missed a couple. Luckily, we have Labor’s Mark Butler to jog memories.
More schools are needed, but if they don’t look nice you’ll feel the wrath of Farrelly
Sure, a serious need is being addressed, but the architecture writer sees a city going to the dogs.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of intersectional victim dudes
An affair in which nice activists came to hope that a vicious attack had in fact taken place.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if clean, green virtue were rewarded with a tidy price rise?
Good investors such as the Church of England have prevailed over coal-fired sinfulness.
Full Marx for the glorious rehabilitation of socialism from the dustbin of history!
Communism’s prophet profited from the capitalist press and an industrialist’s largesse.
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