Still Life With Cat

Quoted in a report tonight: Bob Brown: 'This lockout is also a sellout of the spirit of Australia.' Tony Abbott: 'It is t...

In the Senate, Labor's Doug Cameron said he was concerned about "the disintegration of the Liberal Party". "The barbarian...

'The file “768208-rally-abbott.jpg” could not be opened because it is empty.' Truer word was never spoken. Meanwhile, check out ...

And this is what he has to say. Observe the precision of his judgement, and the exquisite subtlety of his timing.

You've got to hand it to him though; he's 100% consistent. One relied upon him to make some response of this calilbre , and one has ...

Cast your mind back six years to Boxing Day 2004, when a tsunami caused 230,000 deaths in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and ten othe...

This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to start. Like his immediate and indeed only superior (structural, that is, not mo...

If ever you were tempted to think that women in Australia or indeed in the West generally had finally gained some sort of equality in public...

Tim Dunlop has a sharply pointed post this morning on the subject of Tony Abbott's sudden discovery that he's actually quite sorry ...

Australia, what have you done?

One of the things that occurred to me very forcefully several times during the nightmare morning I spent a few years ago in the Assemblies o...

As readers of this blog may have noticed, I'm quite a fan of Crikey reporter Bernard Keane and am enjoying his weekday reports in Crikey...

Back in 1994 I was writing a TV column for Eureka Street . Here's what I said about Laurie Oakes, whose weekly political interviews were...

Mungo McCallum on the "debate" in today's Crikey is in form as fine as it ever was back in the day, when he was writing for th...

What I'm mainly learning is the extent to which political tribalism blinds most of the populace to the actual facts of a politician'...

I mean, can you think of anyone else who left school at fifteen who could make himself so vulnerable by, yet still somehow convincingly get ...