Still Life With Cat

Listening to first Tony Windsor and then Rob Oakeshott deliver their verdicts in this afternoon's press conference was a really interest...

Anyone following the entertaining shemozzle that Australian federal politics has recently become (usually it's a fairly boring shemozzle...

Dude knows his stuff, is why. I was directed to this magnificently clear and thorough explanation of the current and possible future Canb...

Australia, what have you done?

Never, ever underestimate how much it takes out of a person to endure protracted emotional strain, particularly if this involves self-restra...

One has been trying in these dark pre-election days to stay a bit cheerful and upbeat and not to visualise what the phrase 'Prime Minist...

This is an election where slogans are really wearing thin. Abbott today tried to start talk about Labor’s “Great Big New Filter”, after wh...

Everyone already knows that the judgement of former Labor leader Mark Latham isn't super flash (though it's better than that of the ...

Bernard Keane in today's Crikey Campaign bulletin: Only in this bizarrely [sic] – and bizarrely uninteresting – campaign can Labor’s d...

So since when was calling a bigot a bigot a gaffe? Askin'.

In the days following the US election there's been considerable discussion both online and IRL about how bad Barack Obama's inspired...

Around 9 am, certain hardy persons, clearly well young enough to be my children, were asking on one of the LP election threads what people ...

Many people will have seen this footage on TV but I've not yet seen anyone blogging about it (probably because I tend to confine myself ...

By this logic, I myself share the beliefs, professions and/or ethnicity of, or have otherwise sinister connections to, all of the following:...

Regular readers around the Ozblogosphere will have noticed a certain amount of concern trolling about how shocking it is that 'the femin...

A question for people who know more about the US than I do, ie pretty much everyone on the planet. (Looking at you, T.) Someone over at Larv...

Regular readers of this blog will by now be aware that I am a devoted fan of Guy Rundle's daily reports back to crikey.com.au on the pro...

Guy Rundle writes for crikey.com.au today from Alaska and appears to be in a state of despair not entirely induced by the cold: Would like t...