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We pretty much have a Constitutional crisis happening here in Australia, though no-one really wants to call it, as, well, we are all lazy and it serves just about everyone’s interest to keep the sideshow rolling.

Hey Current Affair, Daily Telegraph and any other tabloids interested, have I got a front page scoop for you? Forget dole bludgers, this is welfare bludging on steroids. I'll give you the teaser, then, howz about you go and do the rest of the work huh?

If you have missed it, and I hope you have not, Dr Kirstin Ferguson has tweeted profiles of hundreds of women – 2 profiles, every day, during 2017 - on Twitter under the hashtag #CelebratingWomen.

I am really conflicted over the Barnaby Joyce rumours - politically, ethically and emotionally. Though not being mentioned on TV political news shows, everyone on social media would have seen the article by Sharri Markson “Barnaby Joyce battles vicious innuendo as Coalition fears citizenship woe” [...]

Bill Shorten was supposedly pandering to young voters this morning. Meandering through a disstrack, slandering Pine and Abbott, his boring perception shattering with every staggering swaggering clapback. Accused of manufacturing and pampering, presenting himself in an unflattering light. Is that the [...]

This piece has been updated to include the new information from ACMA and the Bill that passed through Parliament that will be in force during the period of The Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey.

One of the hardest things to cop with the this dodgy divisive survey the Government has inflicted upon the nation is the faux balance we constantly see. “Both sides be respectful”, “Respect other opinions”, blah blah. The other aspect that infuriates me is the phenomena, given credence by too [...]

Conspiracy theories are so de rigueur, just ask Julie Bishop 😉 Yesterday we entered day two of #BroGate and mate, didn’t the Government double down on the whole “OMG! Treason! Bill Shorten and the Labor Government conspired with a foreign power”.

The leak of that infamous chat between our Prime Minster Turnbull and the newly elected President Trump – at the time – has been the talk of the town and obviously Twitter exploded, which is always fun to watch. If you have not read the transcript in full, I suggest you do. Amidst the frivolity of [...]