Uni lecturer loves dictators
Tim Anderson gets $130,000 a year to tell Sydney students how good Kim Jong-un is …
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Gallagher turns triple threat
And Karl Stefanovic gets his Victorian pollies all mixed up during his Logies rant.
LA Council kills Columbus Day
And are local government cuts to Australia Day just about indigenous history?
Tony Abbott’s ego is versatile
Amazingly, it turns out it has more capabilities and characteristics than even a Swiss Army knife.
Trojan Horse par for the course
And South Australia loses a seat in federal parliament. Can Christopher Pyne fix it?
Shorten bends knee to Albo again
And Tony Abbott is racking up travel bills faster than he racked up government debt.
The Herald hits hurting Houston
Oil and gas has given Texans so much. If only the greenies could grasp that …
Shorten signs up to history wars
And lefties want to take down a Melbourne monument that isn’t even there.
Shorten no secret-agent man
And Lisa Wilkinson tells two different stories about her bung arm to her loyal fans.
Abbott and the grapes of sloth
First comes the vino — then eventually, a whole bunch of years down the track, the veritas.
Shorten gets full Marx
And Hillary Clinton has a new book coming out. Yes, another one. No, she will not stop.
PM hangs with billionaires
Australia’s richest man has made friends with quite a few world leaders recently.
Citizenship circus in Laborland
Bill Shorten says Labor MPs have never asked for proof Liberals are true blue, but they have.
Postal vote panic cools down
Remember how a postal plebiscite was going to unleash a plague of homophobes?
Xenophon joins citizenship clowns
Could everybody just reveal their dual citizenship status today please? We’re very tired.
Nats time for a constitutional
At least when they were still called the Country Party, they never really specified which country.
Shorten’s non-answer on funds
And former British cabinet minister Ed Balls is in Canberra. Yes, his name is Balls. Grow up.
Shorten’s Australia Day test
And the City of Yarra fails to come up with another date for our national holiday.
Lateline’s position on SSM
And comedian Tim Minchin back-pedals on his pro-gay marriage, anti-Aussie ditty.
MP needs lesson on bees and bees
And we confirm Barnaby Joyce is just as Aussie as Russell Crowe and Phar Lap.
Nazi seems to be the hardest word
Trump’s been so strong on Islamic extremism. Why is he scared of the new Ku Klux Klan?
Nuclear threat a unifying force
As fissures open over the same-sex marriage survey, Kim Jong-un has become the great unifier.
Bishop can’t run from N Korea
Penny Wong and Julie Bishop fight over Asia while Americans urged to ‘sleep well at night’.
Musk’s relationship troubles
And Malcolm Roberts is set to find out if he is a member of One Nation or Two.
Census bunglers make comeback
And Matthew Guy’s lobster-eating companion turns out be an old foe of The Age.
Turnbull’s time running out
When senior MPs start saying ‘I support the leader’, prime ministers start to die.
Libs to decide on SSM, probably
At this rate, Vatican City will have allowed gay marriage before Australia.
Turnbull sorts out hang-ups
When descriptions of his call with Donald Trump first leaked, Malcolm Turnbull wanted to make one point clear.
Prison rates on Triggs’s watch
It’s one year since ‘that cartoon’ but Bill Leak’s genius still resonates.
PM leaves gay MPs at altar
And the ABC revisits a private rehab centre skewered by Four Corners.
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