7+ hour, 20+ min ago   (887+ words) One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The Spectator Australia One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the…...

16+ hour, 26+ min ago   (1052+ words) Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the…...

20+ hour, 51+ min ago   (534+ words) This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical. With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election ever, no amount of ‘NFL hoopla’ can mask the underlying truth that Victoria is headed for the rubbish heap of history…...

1+ day, 26+ min ago   (825+ words) It’s surely impossible to imagine Tanya Plibersek – Plibbers to most of us – ever being the prime minister of this country. (Mind you, we might have had the same thought about Albo.) But her name regularly pops up on lists of…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1081+ words) Secret Harbour was Labor’s not-so-secret nightmare: a seat it had held since 1989 fell in a landslide to One Nation, which had polled just 8.5 per cent there at the previous election. Pollsters said voters felt taken for granted and were worried…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (566+ words) After the summer Pauline Hanson returned from Britain with Nigel in her handbag, even though he declined to meet her. The Reform slogans came through customs intact: the ‘uniparty’, the betrayed voter, the insurgency coming to smash a failed political…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (709+ words) The Spectator Australia Nobody east of the Rabbit-Proof Fence had heard of it two weeks ago, but WA’s Secret Harbour, like Doris Day’s ‘Secret Love’, is no secret anymore. And at some point in the not-too-distant future the contest for…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (288+ words) Both Hastie and Pickering come from an army background prior to entering politics, and are to be commended for their service to this nation. Both have families to think of. Both hold and present themselves well, as one would expect,…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1033+ words) The Prime Minister appeared distinctly agitated when answering questions about Bowen’s expensive and poorly attended paradise climate talkfest in Fiji. ‘It’s also going to cost taxpayers a lot of money,’ said one reporter, pushing their microphone into frame, ‘more than…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (965+ words) Aussies of a certain vintage will remember this classic ad from the 1980s, my favourite decade. Yes, following the success of that brilliant campaign, it was inevitable that a new disparaging slang word entered the Aussie vernacular – Clayton’s. It means a…...