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Screw the budgie nine, and News Corp too

Any Western person of means who plots to synchronously strip down to his scanties at a public event in a conservative nation has hope of hostile attention.

Christian Lobby funding defence of anti-abortion mother of 13

The Human Rights Law Alliance is a new legal front for the Australian Christian Lobby, and it is already taking on a big case.

Enough is enough, hipsters: wear your damn bike helmet

Helmets are not worse than useless -- they significantly reduce head injuries. It's time to stop staying otherwise.

How many refugees should Australia take every year?

Malcolm Turnbull has increased the number of refugees to 18,750, but that is a much lower number than we can comfortably support.

What if our collective racism turned again to Asians?

It turns out 49% of Australians want to stop Muslims from immigrating. But what if they were convinced China's military were a much bigger threat than Islamic State (which it probably is)?

Sugar, oh, honey honey, I am the nanny state, and you've got me watching you

The dietary villain du jour is now sugar -- supposedly "the new tobacco". Except the facts fit uneasily with this new form of nanny statism.

British Colonial Co is a bad marketing exercise, not 'gross racism'

The “market” has voted and decided that British Colonial Co should have secured some better branding advice before popping its pith helmet on.

How exhausted ballots spared us from another One Nation senator

Exhausted ballots benefited the Greens in Tasmania and Western Australia, with One Nation missing out.

Stephen Conroy, policy and political pugilist, departs

In Stephen Conroy's shock resignation, the Labor party has lost a man who was always up for a fight -- on both politics and policy.

Is the media giving Pauline Hanson too much attention?

In a sample period analysed by Crikey and Isentia, Roberts had more interviews than all his fellow One Nation colleagues combined.