Australian waters


MacCormack: The electoral gods must be crazy

The electoral gods have a wicked sense of humour, don’t they? They seem to have thoroughly embraced a version of Marx’s maxim that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, writes David MacCormack.

Tampering with the Tampa – inconvenient truths revisited

One of the reasons the Tampa matter cannot be left to rest is that Australians are not altogether convinced that they been told the whole story, writes Rachel Siewert.