I was a Rhesus Monkey…
Julie Bishop 
Meanwhile, Bishop lurks in the background
While Coalition leader Malcolm Turnbull lays his leadership on the line over emissions trading negotiations, deputy Julie Bishop is skulking around in the shadows, engaging in secretive negotiations with other Liberal MPs.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Julia
Education Minister Julia Gillard was under fire for overspending A$1.5 billion in the school buildings project and she came out guns blazing in parliament. For once, the voice of reason was Wilson Tuckey.
Libs in a twist over China
The Coalition just can’t decide what their stand is on China/Australia relations. The only thing they can agree on: all the diplomatic problems are thanks to PM Kevin Rudd, writes Lenore Taylor.
The Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme is dead.
Long live the Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme!
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Hu gives Smith, Bishop and Crean a boost? Exactly
The Stern Hu arrest has unsurprisingly launched Stephen Smith, Julie Bishop and Simon Crean way up the list in the battle for political media airtime.
Political snippets: A little red warning light on Stern Hu
The presumed innocence of Stern Hu and the return of the residential investor.
Coalition ‘punch-up’: a regrettable incident
The Coalition’s discipline, which held more or less solid for the eleven years of the Howard Government, has never really recovered from the election defeat. As this morning it showed.
A brief history of props in Federal Parliament
Politicians from both sides have a long democratic tradition of treating Parliament contemptuously.
Tips and rumours: ABC Radio stays mono
One tipster questions if ABC Radio will actually go digital, and what’s going on between Julie Bishop and Dennis Jensen?
Magazines and TV shows just love a list!
A snapshot of our politicians in the current crop of exciting list journalism.
Bishop hunted by penises: another Liberal cock-up
I’d been fooled by the rise and rise of Julia Gillard into thinking gender didn’t matter, or mattered far less than it used to.
Costello: my balls are the best balls of all
Peter Costello made a rousing address to the Coalition party room yesterday. Walter Slurry has obtained this transcript.
Julie Bishop – the circles are vulturing…
Joe Hockey and Andrew Robb are visting Malcolm Turnbull
Tragedy brings the best out of Parliament
It’s a shame such a vast tragedy was required to bring out the best in our parliamentarians, but it did, writes Bernard Keane.
The end times are imminent!
What are the 33 and a half signs of the impending Apocalypse?
Open letter to Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop
Having wasted vast amounts of money when times were good, it seems you’re determined to criticise the Government for taking us into deficit when things are at about their worst, writes Bernard Keane
Six ideas from the 2020 summit
…that will be implemented to reinvigorate the nation…
