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If you were writing a morality play where a party, or a faction of that party, claimed the US president was a heathen foreign communist, ...

Was it really just a little over six months ago that our Attorney-General George Brandis stood up in the senate and declared that people hav...

"If [force] is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doub...

The shoe may be on the other foot and the foot may be kicking the shit out of anyone who owns less than a dozen newspapers and a couple of t...

Or… I’m not a journalist, but… Part 3 This week has been the stupidest week the government has had since coming to office last September, ...

There is a certain anti-intellectualism about Australia. There is also a certain anti-intellectualism about politics. When you put the two ...

What a difference an election makes! Suddenly the Coalition thinks that a shrill and obstructionist opposition is a bad thing. And no-one is...

Last night on the special edition of 7:30 on the passing of Nelson Mandela, Quentin Dempster asked Andrea Durbach , “What do we lose with...

Consider this: Imagine it's 1983. And imagine someone told you that in 30 years' time, Russia would be granting asylum to an Ame...

I am starting to think that presidential debates are second only to the state of the union address when it comes to pointless political the...

At the beginning of the year, I pondered which of their stated values the Republican party would throw away, or at least try to rationalis...

There’s a big stink in the US at the moment about a fast food chain. The president of the Chick-fil-A chain, Dan Cathy (a man I had never h...

Volume three of all the web pages I've posted, retweeted, liked, dugg, stumbled or otherwise taken note of during the year.  (I know tha...