Clive Palmer,having misplaced his old party’s name,urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so,Trumpet of Patriots is born.
The House of Representatives has hosted debates about many hefty issues over the years. This wasn’t one of them.
For 55 years,Michael Leunig’s illustrations helped make sense of a sometimes crazy world. Now he is gone.
The last time anyone shouted from the press gallery,an abject apology was required to save the offender from trial by parliament. What now for Lidia Thorpe?
Even Opposition Leader Peter Dutton conceded Bill Shorten would have made a great prime minister.
Dutton may have a glass jaw,but the same can’t be said of McKenzie,who will not let her own chequered record deter her from her pursuit of the prime minister.
Comedian Shaun Micallef,who benefitted from the former Labor leader’s one-liners more than anyone,said “I owe him a great debt.”
Gammin is used by Indigenous Australians to describe fakery. The word,also written as gammon,was used in the same way by Charles Dickens.
The Russian embassy in Canberra has never offered comfort. But the Soviets refused to move in the 1970s. Now the Russians have to stay put.
The foreign minister disposed of the diplomatic gloves as she lashed Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather over his party’s blocking of the government’s signature housing bill.