Has Tony Abbott lost his cheer squad?

Let’s talk about shit. Our leaders talk it, our prime minister is full of it, and for one of the G20 leaders, it’s a key piece of policy. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is coming to Brisbane for the G20 after a quick victory lap of the world, …

Whether because of design, incompetence, ignorance or a complete absence of empathy, Australia’s response to the Ebola outbreak has been wholly inadequate at best and laughable at worst. Last week, Senator Jacqui Lambie asked Defence Force Vice Chief …

Reflecting on the failures of Australian politics and media

The week that was nonsense

Balancing the goodies and baddies in Abbott's first year

What is saddest about the brain death of 24-year-old Iranian man Hamid Kehazaei is what could have saved him: a pair of shoes, or some basic medical treatment. Perhaps just a bandaid. A bandaid. What is most infuriating are the reports …

The best and worst of the Minister for Social Services

Proponents of anti-poor policies have ice in their veins

On Meredith and Golden Plains' No Dickhead Policy

For the past couple of years, I’ve been steadily racking up frequent flyer points, jetting around Australia and the world to host literary salons. I’ve memorised my own version of the packing list Joan Didion had taped to her closet door throughout …

The Commonwealth Games have begun in Glasgow, a fact that has been largely buried in the news cycle by the horrors of Gaza and flight MH17. I am surprised, even a little disappointed, that more hay hasn’t been made out of the Games in which Australia …

In October 2013, ABC TV and Screen Australia announced a call out for ‘Fresh Blood’, an initiative that offered twenty aspiring comedy creators grants of $10,000 to nurture talent from a new generation of Australian comics. Last week, the …

After almost 24 hours of head-scratching, journalists all around the country have fairly uniformly labelled Clive Palmer’s press conference the most “bizarre” media event in parliamentary history. Last night Palmer, a man who has made …

Archer Magazine bills itself as Australia’s first journal of sexual diversity. Using a combination of arty photography and revelatory think pieces, the charter of the magazine is to explore the myriad kinks and preferences of sexually active …