Border force or border farce?
Plus: New York-area explosions confound candidates while the PM rides the rails again
Cutandpaste
Tassie peace, threats in Sydney
Plus: Malcolm Turnbull’s biographer turns on his hero and Susan Carland makes a revelation.
Red underpants at half mast
From the dreamscapes of Conrovia to the war on press freedom, the senator made his mark.
Scott Morrison hits the trifecta
But paying off your house, raising children and saving? The SMH thinks that’s just square.
Cancel flowers for nuptial equality
Plus: Boys will be patriarchal little boys, unless they happen to be Jane Caro’s grandson.
The bishop doth protest too much
The bishop of the Catholic diocese of Parramatta has called on the church to accept homosexuality.
Permanent campaign returns
Plus: What a difference a ‘health episode’ makes to coverage of Hillary Clinton.
David Marr is in the pulpit
Meanwhile, free speech means you get a choice of euphemism when tackling tricky topics.
Turnbull: what’s the score?
Plus: The rise and rise of identity politics, where even robots are in the frame.
The rule of holes, stop digging
Plus: Government, Opposition compete to issue the policy program with the most points.
The China syndrome
Plus: Up with lifters, and The Philippines’ president brings a new meaning to “paleo” diet.
Labor’s ‘bright young man’
Many words, fewer answers as to why Sam Dastyari let someone else foot the bill.
Not-so-serious serious sub leak
Plus: It’s (once again) the end of the world as Clive Hamilton knows it, but we feel fine.
Labor grapples with China policy
Is Sam Dastyari our own Manchurian candidate, or is he simply confused?
Riot act for all reasons
From Canberra to Syria, from Rio to Yorkshire, the Riot Act of George I comes in handy.
Curious case of ‘Dasher’ Dastyari
Splitting Greens, and Derryn and Jacqui are the king and the queen of the ball.
Like old times for Dastyari
Donations and discrimination dominate the first real day of the new Parliament
Gay marriage debate looms large
But even with the best of planning, though, the unexpected still occurs.
Wong, Xenophon put politics first
Plus: Solar boom a bust, and is Pauline Hanson the hottest ticket in Australia?
Just an opinion poll
Plus, Sarah Hanson-Young grapples with the disappointment of losing her coveted portfolio.
From frying pan to fire?
Plus: free speech, McDonald’s, and progressives delaying same-sex marriage.
Lifters and leaners 2.0?
Plus: Budding bromance, The Age and ABC get scatological, and a new job for Kevin Rudd?
Same same but different
Same sex plebiscites, plus why it’s probably not a great idea to take share-picking advice from Nick Xenophon.
Media Watch tackles Four Corners
It’s a he-said, she-said as Aunty debates the ABCs of bias.
See you in Japan
Much finger-pointing as Australia’s efforts fail to turn up much in the way of precious medals.
Freedom is indivisible
Meanwhile, what passes for feminist science celebrates the blissful freedom of the zygote.
Let Saigons be bygones
Plus: Olympic outrages, ABC bias, and a Donald Trump statue that could use a trigger warning.
SMH changes its view on coal
Plus: Hard-hitting Bachelor reporting and the important issue of sexual consent and food.
A most Aussie protest, FFS
The deployment of a three-letter acronym against the Prime Minister may make this the most Aussie protest ever.
White men can’t jump
It will be the government’s privilege to determine whether you should check yours
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/cutandpaste/page/27