Rising tide of terror, intolerance
Indonesia may well be complacent but one of our own top experts missed the Islamist trend.
Indonesia may well be complacent but one of our own top experts missed the Islamist trend.
Meanwhile, the PC tribe wants to resurrect sumptuary rules for the Eurovision songfest.
Elsewhere, down on the hobby farm, there are people with earthier tastes and ambitions.
It seems the Coalition has settled on a fairly basic message about the federal Labor leader.
But maybe there’s a filament of hope when Media Watch holds its employer to account.
Meanwhile, expect Trump to ratchet up the pressure on the nuclear mullahs in Tehran.
And in other news, sexism has insinuated itself into every crevice of our benighted culture.
Meanwhile, our national broadcaster poses as Mr Joyboy, bringing light where there is gloom.
American comedian Michelle Wolf thinks the Washington press corps is in love with Trump.
It’s hard, but as it’s the 200th birthday of the co-father of communism, someone had to give it a crack.
Being a WA MP with kids is hard? Try 12 kids in Tasmania … while you’re prime minister.
The French President seems to really love telling off his foreign counterparts.
And how much Gonski funding is going towards corporate gobbledygook classes?
And Michelle Guthrie used to understand commercial struggles. What happened?
Did historian Jonathan King get a single thing right in his story about Villers-Bretonneux?
As history is made on the Korean peninsula, it looks like a case of apocalypse postponed.
The assistant minister says there are no socialists in his party. So he’s sure of that, is he?
Are Catherine Deveny and Michael Leunig really so cut off from ordinary Aussies?
Mention of Ron Medich’s money has Labor ducking for cover.
And Kevin Rudd says Turnbull is too tough on China. Has he forgiven it for Copenhagen?
Why can’t Kelly O’Dwyer say she was wrong to oppose the royal commission?
One bonus of the bank investigation has been the masterful displays of political contortionism.
And Tony Abbott comes out swinging against those who say Safe Schools is his fault.
And Tony Abbott tries to say Safe Schools isn’t his fault. Not so fast there.
The former foreign minister wasn’t pleased at all when he heard about his warm-up act.
For the former Queensland premier, sorry doesn’t seem to be the hardest word.
The Republican leader certainly isn’t a foreign policy isolationist anymore.
But if all that seems a bit grim, follow one minister’s lead and be cheered by Tony Abbott.
And a Labor frontbencher says the ALP isn’t divided on the boats. Yes, he’s serious.
And why can’t Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese just say ‘I back Bill Shorten’?
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