Fantasy budget 2015: we ask the experts how they’d spend your money. Is parental leave a workplace entitlement? Abbott changes his tune. Rundle: the whole ugly fallout from the UK polls. Maurice Newman and other internet nutjobs. Baird trades women’s rights for Nile’s support. Julie Bishop sneaks into Thailand. And Morrison sidelines Hockey.
Rundle: a bitter dawn for UK progressives. The Daily Tele: defending homophobia since 1999. Another SBS journo ousted for having an opinion? Hapless Hockey’s half-term horrors. Time for old drivers to get off the roads? Chan and Sukumaran funerals. Gillard at uni. Heads in the sand at Woolies over slave labour. And Bernard Keane’s “racy” novel …
No leaks, no spills: how the Greens piss off the press gallery. Murdoch gets his Netflix tax. Struggle Street controversy pays off for SBS. Rundle comes clean on his (UK) voting intentions. Customs targets Australian citizens in race-based ad push. Razer: obsession with anorexia does more harm than good. And what voters don’t like about Di Natale.
Keane on the Greens: Milne’s legacy and Di Natale’s biggest challenge. Fairfax “breathless, exhausted”. Lessons for Abbott in the Vic budget. Razer: baby Charlotte is a tool of oppression. A Sky News cleanout? James Murdoch a “foul-mouthed bully”. David Leyonhjelm’s purrfect puss. And Guy Rundle's very occasional snooker column returns …
Keane: budget might not be diabolical. The Immigration Department’s racist Facebook ads? Trouble in paradise: Andrew Bolt v Paul Kelly. Katter supports Labor? Student pollies cry censorship. Watching the watchers: is there enough security agency oversight? Voters back nanny subsidies. Why East West Link is not dead yet. And News Corp kills off Newspoll.
The Australian Federal Police finally fronted the media this morning about the extent of their role in the arrest of the Bali Nine. The AFP has refused to answer questions for months on the actions they took in the lead-up to the arrest of the nine Australians, as journalists took a renewed interest in the […]
Why Abbott removed the AFP’s death penalty ruling. Jetstar’s alarming storm mishap. Another major F-35 bungle. Boris Johnson comes the raw prawn. What do political staffers do all day, anyway? Rundle: how Labour lost Scotland. The problem with Madigan’s abortion bill. Medical journal in shambles after editor's sacking. And the power of Sukumaran’s art.
News Corp faces legal action over terror doctor. Boycott Bali? Clive Palmer’s Indonesia connection. The big-name personality driving for Uber. Are we really on track to lose our AAA rating? The problem with Fairfax’s new chairman. ICAC told to hurry up. Torney says all is well at the ABC (despite staff complaints). And Razer on eggplants and man-tackle.
Why Abbott struggled to save the Bali two. From “drug kingpin” to the painter and the pastor: how the media changed its tune. Rundle on hope after death. Plus: eat more sugar! Our bizarre food rating system. AFP spam or scam? Razer: Belle Gibson is not the problem. Indonesia rallies behind Mary Jane Veloso. And Clinton’s new logo -- brought you by the '90s?
K-Rudd’s website blocked by Parliament. The AFP’s Facebook snooping? Keane: Bishop’s trip through the War on Terror looking glass. Save the BBQ! Aussie diplomacy hits a snag in Burma. Rundle meets gorgeous George Galloway. Why are we so obsessed with food? Mayne: Australia is the Wild West of capital raising. And Gumshoe Sinodinos’ big scoop.
