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Yesterday's Bill Leak cartoon

Rundle: an obituary for Bill Leak, and his monstrous exploitation by The Australian

Bill Leak was a great artist, and he was a genuinely funny cartoonist about once a week.

Liberals in crisis -- from ascendancy to chaos in four years

In 2013, the Liberal Party dominated Australian politics. Now it is in disarray, riven by factions, struggling to fend off a resurgent Labor, and vexed by One Nation. Bernard Keane and Josh Taylor examine where it went wrong.

EXCLUSIVE: court transcripts from cases heard by Justice Man on Bondi Tram

Adjudications from the bench of the Man on the Bondi Tram, as researched by satirist Ben Pobjie.

Three years on from MH370's disappearance, is the mystery now unsolvable?

The risk that MH370 might not be found until well after all of those alive today are dead, and its mystery thus irrelevant and forgotten, is very real.

Guess how many times Labor mentioned penalty rates in question time?

Does anyone want to talk about anything other than penalty rates and energy? Anyone? No? OK then ...

Taxpayers fund scientific research, but the resulting data is kept secret

Giving open access to already-used data has some key benefits, writes biologist Allen Greer.

Ah, 18C. How glorious it is to watch you split the right apart.

Rundle: the right suffers a hat-trick of losses on 18C, and it was just amazing to watch

Ah, 18C. How glorious it is to watch you split the right apart.

Sick of listening to rich, white feminists gripe? Then improve workers' conditions.

I did laugh when I saw that the Australian writer, and corporate consultant, Kasey Edwards was the latest to write for Fairfax that she doesn’t trust men with the temporary care of her children, writes Helen Razer.

Fee-gouging medical specialists must be brought to heel

There is little sign that the Australian government, or the opposition, is considering ways to redress specialist fee exploitation.

Dear George, Barnaby and Malcolm: advice for struggling Australians

Words of wisdom from those wise sages in blue, as compiled by Crikey intern Sophie Heizer.