Media Watch’s beef with the Oz
Paul Barry takes some time off from sharing Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.
Cutandpaste
Media Watch turns eyes to Moscow
Next week on Media Watch: Harold Holt found in Beijing with Diana and Elvis.
Human rights fight for Bishop
Do we really want a seat on the UN Human Rights Council? Really? Really, really?
Endless leadership speculation
And while we’re talking party tensions, political history is throwing up some fascinating echoes.
Trump blubbers on Flynn, Russia
Leaders who had a rough time? Take a look at the likes of JFK and China’s boy emperor.
SMH dishes up Gonski cash rehash
And Fairfax Media boss Greg Hywood bowls over poor old Aunty in his Maserati.
Turnbull crash-tackles Credlin
And the bank bosses try to axe the tax but the past keeps getting in their way.
Mal’s big budget bungle
And Bill Shorten wants us all to ‘think big’. How about we start with tax reform, Bill?
Low marks from Sharri
Everyone from Costello to Credlin thinks this budget is far from the Liberal norm.
Levy panders to public dislike
Has Clive Palmer been inspired by another well-known, well-padded multi-millionaire?
Dutton rolls his eyes at Fairfax
And a former prime minister wasn’t crazy about Scott Morrison’s budget this week.
Palmer goes from fab to flu
And Donald Trump to host America’s Next Top Cop after firing the boss of the FBI.
Back in the former USSR?
Trump says he’s in the clear on Russia but the former head of US intelligence isn’t so sure.
No safe schools under ALP
And is the Prime Minister’s office sending a subtle hint to George Brandis?
Beep! Don’t mention the A-word
Nine beeps the Treasurer’s profound profanity and Liz breaches the picket lines
The fat fingers come out
And elsewhere, the eternal perils of joining the herd and stampeding towards a palace ‘death’.
Solidarity for Fairfax?
Fairfax journalists shook their heads at Sally McManus but now she’s rushing to their side.
Cuts to Catholics incoming
And Hillary Clinton emerges from her exile but she’s still stuck in a fantasy land.
Gonski comes back-ski
And the Herald’s Peter Hartcher plays a game of Battleship … and fails really badly.
Fairfax turns to The Australian
Both the Herald and the Financial Review took their inspiration from this great paper yesterday.
Fairfax fights for data rights
And Elizabeth Farrelly wants less smashed avocado, more smashed windows
Change we can’t quite believe in
This Herald scribe may be sad, but at least her sense of betrayal stays miraculously fresh.
Laundy airs Libs’ dirty laundry
Even Hannibal Lecter would think the Liberals’ cannibalistic behaviour is a bit much.
Yassmin’s yucky Anzac post sparks outrage
And we look at how Abdel-Magied has marked Anzac Days gone by.
Coates’s tail trampled on
And First Daughter Ivanka Trump tries to drag her clothes out of the bargain bin.
Hillary horror show exposed
And France’s presidential elections will keep Malcolm Turnbull up at night.
Fairfax flunks Aussie history
And Waleed Aly has his eyes on the prize … and it’s not another Gold Logie
Will terrified scribe sleep?
Trump news means no snooze for Van Badham, who’s turning into a reverse Rip Van Winkle.
Payne punts on wrong pony
And a Greens senator admits to smoking weed … and he definitely inhaled …
The Age leave trans subscribers in the cold
And The Australian Finanical Review runs a scoop our Niki Savva knows all too well …
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