Paula Matthewson
Why Barnaby Joyce leading the Nats is such a dumb move
Anyone who doesn’t live inside the Canberra bubble might have been surprised to learn this week that disgraced former Nationals leader Barnaby...
Mathias Cormann: The incredible shrinking man
He didn’t vote for Pauline Hanson’s racist motion. He wasn’t even in the Senate chamber when it happened. Yet it was left...
In Wentworth, as ScoMo knows only too well, it’s all about protests and preferences
To protest or not to protest. That is the question occupying the minds of residents in the federal seat of Wentworth, who’ll...
Labor shifts its focus and ramps up a whole new set of election promises
Yes, it’s October already and the Christmas decorations have appeared in our department stores. This means voters are keen to get the...
The upbeat budget news that could give Scott Morrison a fighting chance in the polls
While you were watching (or ignoring) the ABC board implode following the sacking of its chief executive, you might have missed the...
Scott Morrison does what Turnbull wouldn’t: Woo hard-core conservatives
Every day over the past parliamentary fortnight, Labor asked the new PM Scott Morrison to explain why Malcolm Turnbull is no longer...
Barnaby pot, Turnbull kettle and the exit marked ‘hypocrisy’
Even at the best of times politicians aren’t great at self-reflection. When part of your day job is to wage war on...
‘The Liberal bullies must be named’
It’s been barely two weeks since a contingent of Liberal women threatened to blow the lid on bullying behaviour during the Dutton...
Australia’s dangerous obsession with Scott Morrison’s religion
Scott Morrison has only been in the top job for two weeks but already there appears to be an unseemly obsession with...
Malcolm Turnbull’s epitaph: An immodest PM with much to be modest about
After keeping the world waiting … and waiting … and then waiting some more before finally submitting his resignation late on Friday...