Keane on the lives that have been lost training Iraq's troops. Why you'll soon see more ads on SBS. How Hockey's intergenerational number-fudging is hurting Australia. Turnbull’s verbiage out of vogue. Rundle on the stalking of Gillian Triggs. Bandt's bundle of joy. FTA hopes flushed after Hep A scandal. Essential: voters back Abbott’s national security push. How Islamic State wins over schoolgirls. And meet the man who got Channel Nine to foot his hostel bill.
Keane: how crooks and cartels will benefit from data retention. Whodunit? What the Russian media are saying about Boris Nemtsov’s murder. Has Australia really abandoned the search for MH370? The biting wit of Tracker Tilmouth. What Luke Foley has in common with Tony Abbott. The Labor hopeful fighting WITH Islamic State? NSW Liberals ditch the Mad Monk. Disability activists locked out of disability summit? And get that knighthood ready: we've solved the debt crisis.
Keane: the real reason the PM must go. Rundle on good and bad sex. Hep A in the press gallery. Beecher: this man will decide Abbott’s fate. Mike Baird jumps on the mean tweets bandwagon. Stephen Mayne on that defamation suit and what he learnt from getting sued. Poll Bludger: a dead-cat bounce for the Coalition. What’s wrong with Media Watch? News Corp’s play for Sky News. Richo goes Greek. And what happened to Kate McClymont’s cat?
Attack-mode Abbott beats up on foreigners. Keane: what did Brandis actually offer Triggs? Indigenous news axed. Razer on the greatest political distractions (yes, including that misogyny speech). Old Macdonald's defence of sexism. Rundle on the empty self-pity of American Sniper. Armed drones take off Down Under. And No You Can't: Tony's hopeless campaign poster.
As the Prime Minister tries to dogwhistle his way out of his leadership malaise, the incessant contradictions of the government become too many to track.
AG dept in deep -- but don't expect the feds to step in. Public servants weigh in on Brandis bribe allegations. Rundle: desperate Right savages public as tide turns. The Howards hit the road for caravan conference. We check in with the War on Drugs. ICC chickens out on food stalls. How Abbott's clumsy grasp of foreign policy is putting lives at risk. Death is only the beginning: what happens to your Facebook when you die. And Mark Scott to Senate estimates: haters gonna hate hate hate.
Rundle: the amazing spectacle of Abbott’s death throes. A-G’s head honcho must stand aside over Triggs claims. Memo to the PM: here’s an (incomplete) list of Muslims who condemn terrorism. Send in the troops -- Arnhem Land ‘smashed’ by Cyclone Lam. Even Morry Schwartz is abandoning print. How NSW Labor’s Green-bashing could lose them the election. Bali Nine lawyers back in court, with Indonesia’s justice system on trial. Why is Bruce Billson all over the news? And Campbell Newman’s tell-all book.
Siege report ignores key evidence, plus: why Monis wasn’t deemed a threat. The top secret mission on the front page of the Oz. News Corp turns on Abbott: is this the beginning of the end? How they do security in the Top End (it involves an esky). Simon Chapman to Gerard Henderson: get your facts right. Why we could be getting dudded on the NBN. And from puppies to urinals: have we reached peak Guardian?
Revealed: what Adam Giles told his party room about that failed coup. Intergenerational theft? The Coalition has form. It’s official: MH370 nowhere to be found. The remarkable similarities in Chris Kenny’s copy. Rundle: Greece enters unknown territory with Germany stand-off. Real evidence-based policy would terrify pollies. Mayne: News Corp’s climate change hypocrisy. Unions locked out of MMP after soft news decree. Stilgherrian: major security breach for Lenovo users. And Bernard Keane’s office nudie run (there’s footage).
Keane: dump the census! Governments already know too much. “Major breach of trust”: war of words over confidentiality at the Oz. Gulag Territory: blacks in custody in record numbers in the NT. Lateline returns (with a new look). Greens staffers overheard on the train. The problem with Peter Dutton as legal guardian for refugee kids. Fairfax rewards shareholders as print fortunes fall. And Razer: first they came for the fetishists …
