Criticise the Coalition like Labor leaders
THE SMH economics correspondent bemoans our inability to follow the leader.
Cutandpaste
Is there a Walkley in promoting Islamism?
SMH star journo Paul McGeough sees the bright side of terrorists taking over in the Middle East.
Round and round and round it goes
IT’S raining flood relief, but is the money getting to those who deserve it, and who cares anyway?
Kevin Rudd (for once) lost for words
The Riddle of the Sphinx and what the Foreign Minister really thinks about democracy in Egypt
Budget fat should be sent to Jenny Craig
THE federal opposition appears to have plumped for a fatwa against the government’s flood levy.
Old arguments about national symbol
FLOGGING the flag debate on Australia Day has become something of a national sport.
Facebook friends no substitute for premier
SOCIAL networking sites have become the new scourge of tech-savvy politicians.
Sensational gestational gossip
SURROGACY extends to sources when it comes to gossip mags reporting on celebrity babies.
The lady’s not caving in to pressure
THEY breed them so tough north of the border, Queenslanders would never bow to anything.
Saint Anna stands tall but Bob blunders on
BOB the Brave justifies calling on the coal industry to foot the bill for Queensland’s floods.
Was the PM coached on how to voice her response?
It wasn’t Julia Gillard’s finest hour, but let’s look more seriously at her performance
A nice-looking dump in an ocean like this?
HOW the theory of the Pacific’s plastic heart ended up holding just a little too much water.
Unprecedented use of unprecedented
THIS is the worst misuse of a word in recorded history or at least since the last time it happened.
Old Marxists never die
Another RSPT is buried in the Henry report, the Rich Supermodels Profit Tax.
The only Aussie to enjoy a thrash by Poms
AND who also sees the silver lining in the storm clouds drenching Queensland.
Green is the colour of untainted money
POLITICAL donations are always questionable, except when they come to your party.
TV shock! Benaud utters the D-word
Putting water behind walls may have been acceptable in your day, Richie, but this is 2011
This column will be cremated and returned
(I TOLD you not to let that Pommy bastard write the headline — Ed)
Reporter cables despatch from Mittagong
WAS David Marr the inspiration for William Boot in Evelyn Waugh’s famous novel?
2010 was the year of living with disappointment
Contributors to ABC online’s The Drum Unleashed shared their hopes on January 1, 2010
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