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Barnaby, the Nationals' Id, keeps his story going

Barnaby Joyce is now the one keeping the Barnaby Joyce story going, destroying any effort to move on from it.

What do we know about the deportation of a Tamil man back to Sri Lanka?

Refugee activists in Melbourne have been working around the clock to stop the deportation.

Labor factional proxy wars flare up around the country

The bubbling turmoil in Victorian Labor is starting to boil over.

Hinch's Senate Diary: Christensen's gun stunt 'the most disgusting thing I've seen in Canberra'

Senator Derryn Hinch discusses George Christensen, Barnaby Joyce and other enduring errors.

Interminable right-wing 'influencer' Milo Yiannopoulos.

It's not that Barnaby is a hypocrite. It's that conservatism itself is in crisis.

In their disregard of a child on the way from the Barnaby affair, the right is stepping into the territory of post-Woodstock 1970s era cultural nihilism, which even progressives pulled back from eventually.

Laugh all you want, Xenophon's campaign ad is just what the SA election needed

Nick Xenophon, who perfected the art of the corny political stunt during his time at Parliament House, is playing into the public's desire for spectacle and misfire.

Sing along if you know the words: Abbott's greatest hits at the Sydney Institute

The former front-man played his greatest hits at the Sydney Institute this week, and the routine was tired, stiff, and increasingly irrelevant, writes Margot Saville.

Which one of Barnaby's ticking time bombs will claim him first?

Watch out, Barnaby. You're not out of the minefield yet.

Rundle: Shorten shows his disregard for Batman by cosying up to coal

If Bill Shorten didn't want to hand ammunition to Labor's foes in the Batman byelection, he had a funny way of showing it in Townsville this week.

Scott Morrison needs to study up on his tax talk

The Treasurer's claims on Insiders this week didn't quite stack up.