When analysing the latest Galaxy Poll this morning, what a weird political situation we find ourselves in, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: Turnbull takes a stand on climate change. Sort of.
So Malcolm Turnbull has taken a position on climate change — well, sort of and up to a point, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Pauline Hanson: it was not me. I’m suing
“I’ve had enough. The truth is that is not me in those photos.” Pauline Hanson insists that the celebrated weekend nudes were not her, writes Jonathan Green.
Conroy: the slimy tentacles of Howard’s internet
Unlike the Howard Government, Labor has vowed to protect every orifice on every citizen, writes Fake Stephen Conroy.
Copenhagen’s climate message: the worst case confirmed
The role of climate scientists in explaining the implications of non-decision is critical, writes Andrew Glikson.
Big Alcohol’s cosy relationship with the Senate
The powerful spirits industry has mounted a fierce lobbying campaign to persuade senators to reject the Rudd Government’s alcopops legislation, writes Alex Mitchell.
Mission to Afghanistan: keeping the least worst warlord in power
Overwhelming military power coupled with a vague confidence in our benevolence doesn’t usually end up so well, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Threat and secrecy: how not to run a University inquiry
Here I was thinking that one of the purposes of parliamentary inquiries is to get important matters of public interest into the public realm without having to fear litigation, writes Tim Battin.
As global crisis deepens, Australia’s emissions rise
The global crisis isn’t cutting greenhouse emissions in Australia. They’re growing, writes Bernard Keane.
DNA testing is dragging out the agony for fire victims
It would seem that there are a lot of families suffering unnecessarily in the service of the (remote) possibility of making one mistake, writes Lynette Turney.
Pell cannot see the log in his own eye
Sydney’s Cardinal Pell sees Christians’ liberty being compromised by an aggressive form of secular liberalism, writes Irfan Yusuf.
LNP’s Queensland stories are not true
An alert reader has drawn our attention to a discrepancy in one of the “stories” presented to Queenslanders by LNP advertisements, writes Bernard Keane.
Gold Coast campaign power play
Broken promises and deception distinguish the recent Queensland history of state electricity provision, writes Ross Stapleton.
Liberal mates milked millions from Howard’s ad bonanza
In the Commonwealth, you can’t use taxpayers’ money without appropriate authority and you can’t spend it without making sure taxpayers are getting the best value for money, writes Bernard Keane.
Anna Bligh’s ship of state threatened by a flood tide
Resigned apathy might be the phrase best suited to the election vibe in Queensland, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Coalition stymies donations transparency. Again.
The Government’s electoral reform bill has been blocked by the party that lost the election and a senator elected on the vote of 1.77% of Victorians, writes Bernard Keane.
Where are the women in the Liberal Party?
The shortage of Liberal women in parliament is one of the great unnoted stories following the last election, writes Stephen Luntz.
The destruction of Australia’s most productive food bowl
Australia’s most productive agricultural region, the Liverpool Plains in North-West NSW, is under siege from BHP Billiton and coal and gas companies, writes Rosemary Nankivell.
GEO joins NSW privatised jail race
John Robertson is following in the former Treasurer’s footsteps by implementing the private management of jails in flagrant opposition to NSW Labor Party policy, writes Alex Mitchell.
A few points on what would make a decent CPRS
While most discussion about voluntary abatement has focused on households, the big sleeper is all the businesses whose business models will be destroyed under the present CPRS, writes Alan Pears.
Questions for the NHMRC on behalf of pregnant tipplers
Pregnant women enjoying the occasional tipple will now incur the wrath of grapes, due to new alcohol guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council, writes Jennifer Doggett.
Turnbull walks the path of Opposition Leaders past
One of the toughest walks in Parliament House is from the Opposition Leader’s office out to the “Opposition Leader’s Courtyard”, writes Bernard Keane.
Can Bligh take a fifth? Take away the number you first thought of …
Is a government more vulnerable after four terms than at any other time? Asks Charles Richardson.
Wong’s ETS is better than nothing, but not by much
A bad ETS can always be improved later, but that assumes we ever get a government prepared to ignore the rentseekers and lobbyists, writes Bernard Keane.
