Gerard Henderson’s Weekly Column OLD – The Sydney Institute

Gerard Henderson’s Weekly Column OLDTSI Staff2020-01-09T16:06:47+11:00

Premier Perrottet is so much more than just his faith

09/10/2021

Beware radical left behind ‘Voices of’ independents

02/10/2021

Subs pact makes us a target for nuke attack? Gao figure

25/09/2021

We’re ill-served when only the rich can take on Aunty

04/09/2021

Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the ABC

04/09/2021

Leaders must be open to a vaccine-led recovery

04/09/2021

Abandonment of Kabul is worse than the fall of Saigon

28/08/2021

Campbell Newman’s LDP bid an own-goal for the conservative side

21/08/2021

Costly errors by ABC journalists spark staff policy changes

14/08/2021

Why does the militant left hate religion?

07/08/2021

Odiousness comparisons in 280 characters or less

29/07/2021

Governing can be difficult, while it’s easy to criticise

24/07/2021

Premier Daniel Andrews could try playing ball instead of politics

15/07/2021

Puff-piece interview shows ABC lacking critical balance

10/07/2021

David O’Byrne fails to get the message and exits stage left

03/07/2021

Barnaby Joyce’s return puts focus on realities of emission targets

26/06/2021

Too many degrees of separation for everyone but Aunty

19/06/2021

Great friends, sure, but don’t lecture us on emissions targets

12/06/2021

Aunty’s activist journos hail a victory that never was

05/06/2021

Two broadcasters, both alike in unaccountability

29/05/2021

Censorship dressed as a plea for fairness in media reporting

22/05/2021

As Coalition proves, good government adapts to challenges

15/05/2021

Morrison has never breached division of church and state

08/05/2021

Labor has a problem with men

Five Eyes allies pick up the tab for NZ’s shortsighted policy

Let’s not inflame China tensions with talk of war

17/04/2021

Crikey, it’s another intellectually light anti-Pell rant

10/04/2021

Who’d be a guest with an ideological host such as Aunty?

03/04/2021

Liberal rebels spurn party that brought them to political dance

27/03/2021

Right is wrong at the left-stacked Sydney Writers’ Festival

20/03/2021

Journalists need to stick to the facts, not their personal beliefs

13/03/2021

All balance lost in the crucible of a witch trial

National cabinet: an exercise in unity minus real power

Sneering critics underestimate ‘Scotty’ at their peril

13/02/2021

ABC Four Corners’ Downfall fails to live up to the spin

06/02/2021

Conflicted ALP struggles to regain its purpose

30/01/2021

Gestures only serve to divide rather than lead to progress

23/01/2021

Left selective in showing contempt, outrage

16/01/2021

Democrats put congress in the grip of cancel culture

09/01/2021

Uncertainty the only thing certain in 2021

02/01/2021

Smelling a rat instead of optimism in 2020, year of identity crisis

26/12/2020

Basic tenet of law spurned in ongoing pile-on of George Pell

19/12/2020

Workers know a job is better than no job

12/12/2020

Letter to ABC’s chair is well within minister’s remit

05/12/2020

Trump ‘truth tellers’ need a refresher course in history

28/11/2020

Disagree with other views? Shut down the platform

21/11/2020

Labor’s climate realist knows it’s all about that base

14/11/2020

US election 2020: People speak but pundits don’t hear

07/11/2020

Democracy under attack from the censorious Left

31/10/2020

Late-night tweets reveal truth about ABC’s culture

24/10/2020

ICAC lines up a third innocent Liberal premier

17/10/2020

Budget’s pandemic spending is the right thing to do

10/10/2020

Amy Coney Barrett is Trump’s Supreme Court pick, not the ‘Catholic choice’

03/10/2020

Kept in dark like mushrooms while Victoria suffers

26/09/2020

Andrews Government in Pursuit of Liberty’s Erosion

19/09/2020

History repeats with good governance in retreat

12/09/2020

Truth unmasked: No, we’re not all in this together

05/09/2020

Grim power still in symbols of past

29/08/2020

Labor faces a divergence between its old and new base

Coronavirus: How did Victoria get so much so wrong?

Foolish Left no judge of economic success

Academic freedom bows at the altar of social media

Whitlam dismissal ‘bombshell’ is nothing more than a fizzer

None of us is perfect, so why all this negative focus?

Kalgoorlie 1920 is no guide to Eden-Monaro today

ABC one-eyed on staff cuts

Acknowledge past injustice without rewriting history

20/06/2020

Left quickly turns on its own in Black Lives Matter debate

No link to Australia but protesters will feel virtuous

Hugs are nice, but industrial reform is more productive

Coronavirus has left Australia in better shape than most

23/05/2020

Royal commission denies George Pell legal justice

Coronavirus: Unlike Labor, unions, Scott Morrison is for the workers

Coronavirus: Good trade relationship with China doesn’t mean we’re kowtowing

Malcolm Turnbull’s book omissions tell us more than the inclusions

Morrison right to prioritise the wellbeing of the working class

18/04/2020

George Pell: Fairness trampled by social media mob

Coronavirus: total economic shutdown not in anyone’s interest

ABC activists in a coronavirus battle

Coronavirus: Listen to the medics: confused messages create chaos

21/03/2020

Panic-buying not a sign of despair

14/03/2020

ABC’s journos have always bitten hand that feeds

07/03/2020

The insidious force of rising foreign interference

29/02/2020

Sports grant saga kicks off fresh round of hyperbole

22/02/2020

Top journos give themselves an ‘A’ for failure in election

15/02/2020

A blow as Nationals hero walks away from cabinet

08/02/2020

ABC’s leading journos out of touch with Australia’s key issues

The left media’s different treatment of two very different prime ministers

25/01/2020

Somewhere over the ditch there’s an imaginary utopia

18/01/2020

Interview more about ‘look-at-me’ Piers Morgan than Craig Kelly

11/01/2020

Unhappy new year but fires aren’t end of the world

04/01/2020

On the road to Apocalypse Soon with Greta Thunberg and her disciples

27/12/2019

Silly season not the time to convert climate sceptics

21/12/2019

It’s all about feelings for climate change theorists on fires

14/12/2019

60 Minutes’ problematic Chinese spy scoop is no Petrov affair

07/12/2019

Nation’s diminishing appetite for any form of palace coup

30/11/2019

Malcolm Turnbull just can’t let it go

23/11/2019

Activist reporting to fore again in Pell appeal comment

16/11/2019

The Conversation and the ABC demean public debate

09/11/2019

Opposition realises it’s the conservative vote that counts

02/11/2019

Andrews dabbles in foreign policy to state’s detriment

26/10/2019

40 years on, welcome signs of a more constructive Aunty

19/10/2019

Labor must learn to listen before it can lead

12/10/2019

Scott Morrison and Alexander Downer tell it like it is, but is anyone listening?

05/10/2019

Britain’s Supreme Court sides with ‘European’ progressives

28/09/2019

It’s not a conversation when only one view is allowed

21/09/2019

The pointscoring behind the Liu pile-on

14/09/2019

Lesson on Christian leadership ought to begin at home

How Cormann saved the election for the Liberal Party

Anti-Pell media pile-on has its day despite Weinberg dissent

Symbolic gestures do nothing to protect our children

17/08/2019

Labor missed the boat by threatening to raise taxes

Even the Police and 60 Minutes can be Gulled on Occasion

Q&A kowtows to Alastair Campbell despite his historical ignorance

27/07/2019

Elementary to leave Bob Brown’s wind farm comments unreported

20/07/2019

Concentration camps? You can’t be serious, Tom Keneally

06/07/2019

Claiming unwinnable election gives Libs a season of calm

29/06/2019

Conservative injection should be easy as learning ABC

22/06/2019

Good governance trumps rigid party agendas

15/07/2019

Croatian Six: miscarriage of justice unredressed 40 years on

08/06/2019

There was always a path to victory for Morrison’s Libs

01/06/2019

Shorten has had his Chifley big-end-of-town moment

25/05/2019

Linking rise of tolerance to Christchurch is a cheap shot

18/05/2019

Spare us the abuse, it benefits no one

13/07/2019

Concentration camps? You can’t be serious, Tom Keneally

06/07/2019

Respectfully, Keating is the pot calling the kettle black

11/05/2019

None so superior as the leftist elite

04/05/2019

Fabric of democracy fraying under weight of the mob

27/04/2019

We march to honour Anzacs’ unfashionable truths

20/04/2019

ALP’s poll position far from decisive

13/04/2019

Capacity to pay, not a tribunal, should determine wages

05/04/2019

Turnbull’s poor 2016 poll performance haunts coalition

29/03/2019

NZ no progressive promised land

22/03/2019

Pell case attracts inaccurate views

16/03/2019

It’s not uncommon for jury verdicts to be questioned

09/03/2019

Pell’s ordeal reinforces the case for judge-only trials

02/03/2019

Palmer unlikely to upend our stable two-party tradition

23/02/2019

Border security policy not based on ‘racism’ and ‘hate’

16/02/2019

ABC’s infatuation with independents is pretty pointless

09/02/2019

Aunty’s built-in bias is plain when it fails to question its favourites too closely

02/02/2019

This nation of immigrants rightly cherishes its rich past

26/01/2019

Our only instability is an infatuation with independents

19/01/2019

Nasties, yes, but we’ve never been fertile soil for Nazis

12/01/2019

Discussion, conversation replaced by the shrill voice of accusation

05/01/2019

No respite from dog of a year

29/12/2018

Coalition could benefit from ‘doing the hypocrisies’

22/12/2018

Wilson case offers a study in contrasting coverage

15/12/2018

Jerusalem is not out of our reach

08/12/2018

We can learn a lot about attribution bias from Malcolm Turnbull

01/12/2018

Last thing the nation needs is an unnecessary inquisition

24/11/2018

Let our leaders speak the truth

17/11/2018

Leftists ignorant in their assault on Douglas Haig for his war service

10/11/2018

Turnbull joins miserable ghosts haunting living rooms

03/11/2018

Biggest swing? In Wills, Cleary outpolled Wentworth’s Phelps

27/10/2018

Aunty offers rising son a platform for ‘crazy’ party claims

20/10/2018

After Hewson in Wentworth, will Turnbull turn against Liberals?

13/10/2018

‘Miserable ghosts’: How do you solve a problem like an ex-PM?

06/10/2018

Tear down ABC’s silos of groupthink

29/09/2018

ABC tries spicing up a stew that lacks basic ingredients

22/09/2018

Turnbull stirs Liberal turmoil with advice on Dutton

15/09/2018

Menzies got the ball rolling on women in parliament

08/09/2018

Turnbull, not News nor 2GB, was the author of his demise

01/09/2018

With a true Liberal back at the helm, next step is unity

25/08/2018

Rhiannon says farewell but not ‘I’m sorry’

18/08/2018

Sky News ban: politics of racism defy a black and white interpretation

11/08/2018

Tell Lenin’s victims that wearing his T-shirt is a bit of fun

04/08/2018

Contrary opinions need a public voice for society to flourish

28/07/2018

At ABC, only one side of story counts

21/07/2018

Labor’s latest rodent, Mark Latham, joins distinguished company

14/07/2018

Upholding law doesn’t make Dutton a fascist

07/07/2018

Albanese, Butler better on business than Shorten, Swan

30/06/2018

ABC presenters never express opinions? Let’s fact-check that

23/06/2018

Hewett story reaction shows the left protect its own regardless of the obscenities

16/06/2018

ABC’s problem with political diversity goes a long way back

09/06/2018

Liberal tension a pointless distraction

02/06/2018

Peter Ridd’s sea of troubles

28/05/2018

Sorry, no apology for Bean’s past faults

21/05/2018

Don’t bite government hand that feeds you, Aunty

14/05/2018

ABC plays host to guests of a left-liberal perspective

07/05/2018

Washington’s Canberra mission is in capable hands with James Carouso

30/04/2018

Anzac Day: field marshal rank the wrong way to honour General John Monash and WWI dead

23/04/2018

Turnbull needs shock, awe and Abbott to reunite party

16/04/2018

ABC journalists treat child sexual assault as a Catholic problem

07/04/2018

Nick McKim Would Be in Jail if Australia Were A Fascist State

31/03/2018

Shorten’s funding vow to Catholics is clever politics

24/03/2018

Trump’s disruption works to Australia’s advantage

17/03/2018

Hodgman’s Tasmania win offers lessons for Turnbull

10/03/2018

Ainsley Gotto was John Gorton’s secretary, not his mistress

03/03/2018

ABC’s moralising choir hits a jarring note

24/02/2018

Anti-Catholic news report finds church owns much property

17/02/2018

ABC’s case against Kevin Lyons rests entirely on hearsay

10/02/2018

Record shows ICAC’s pointless blows, so why emulate it at a federal level?

03/02/2018

Refugees policy: We play bad cop so NZ can afford to be virtuous

Australia Day debate shouldn’t overshadow child abuse

Anti-Trump forces willing to adopt old Soviet methods to topple him

Facts give way to mockery in media’s reporting of politics

Left’s year of Trump-phobia and other insults

Bennelong, New England will mean little by next election

Abuse royal commission: Catholic institutions guilty but so are others

Profumo affair offers lessons best heeded by Sam Dastyari

Keating’s ‘woeful coward’ slur against Menzies ignores historical truths

Foreign policy white paper: do business with China, stay close to US

Same-sex marriage: Thanks to Abbott, the people have had their say on marriage

Dual citizenship decision is brutalist, but the High Court isn’t

Beersheba serves an important reminder

Workers can unite but not with same urgency as in Marx’s time

Left using conspiracies to fuel obsession with Whitlam dismissal

Fabricated claims of racism in Australia give left a drum to beat

Kezelman saga timely reminder for McClennan royal commission

Same-sex marriage: Yes vote a plunge into the great unknown

Labor faithful never waver in their affection for Lionel Murphy

Turnbull moves toward Abbott policies in quest for success

Imagine Kim Jong’s-un’s power if CND and NDP had succeeded

Sanctity of confessional early test of religious freedom

Minchin’s Rant Counter-Productive to Yes Case on Same-Sex Marriage

All the News That Fits the Narrative at Their ABC

Imagine Kim Jong’s-un’s Power if CND and NDP Had Succeeded

Mike Seccombe Errs in Finding Catholics at Heart of NSW Liberals Dispute

MPs Should Know Their Citizenship Status Entering Parliament

Two Labor Figures, but Only One Gets the Numbers Right

Some Free Advice, Think Tank Agony Aunts: Put a Sock In It

Robert Menzies’ success was not based on ‘progressive’ policies

Media Watch: here’s another lesson from the ABC’s bully pulpit

Left-liberals need to explain to public why they are such losers

Left incapable of acknowledging Islamist terrorist threat

Christians are under assault

Whatever Turnbull says, Menzies was more than small-l liberalism

Conservative values, and money, unsafe in liberal academic hands

Coalition’s multicultural statement shows importance of mixing

Australia goes from being power rich to facing an energy crisis

Many Australians resent the ABC’s daily leftist sermons

Hitler, Mussolini … Trump? No, the Donald isn’t a dictator

Netanyahu shows failings of Hawke-Rudd call for Palestinian state

Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gap

Bernardi likely to be a bit player

Child abuse royal commission: don’t just target Catholic Church

Madonna, Streep, Fonda: leaders of opposition to Donald Trump?

Fake news is new, but Left shows fabricated reports are not

Truths need to be told about Australian bushranger Ned Kelly

Block to Israeli-Palestinian peace remains the same as in 1967

2016: The year that was, in all its wildly inaccurate prophecies

Right empowered as terrorists exploit EU’s immigration policies

No, there won’t be a republic in Australia anytime soon

Truth, post-truth and nothing like the whole truth

Castro death reaction shows Left’s hypocrisy, Trump can be right

Switzer alone cannot redress political imbalance in the ABC, USSC

Malcolm Fraser’s Lebanese concession became a disaster

Keating, Wong comments on US alliance are stirring the possum

A condescending media misread middle America

Case against Cardinal George Pell falls down for lack of evidence

No place in political debate for the Queen’s representatives

Attacks on free speech continue while legislation enables them

Offended Left claims exclusive right to freedom of expression

Bad old-fashioned anti-Catholic sectarianism colours accounts

Turnbull can survive political instability by being decisive

Q&A shows why same-sex marriage opponents need campaign funding

What’s deplorable is leftist disdain for the ‘ill-educated’

ABC cannot deny the reprehensible actions of Richard Neville

Mass murderer Mao Zedong undeserving of any commemoration

Freedom of speech at risk from advocates of existing section 18C

Vietnam war: Australia’s role misrepresented on ABC, Sky News

Hindsight has not cleared the vision of an atrocity

Liberal Party does best when conservative forces are kept close

Divided Greens can’t see the common good for the trees

Discussing Europe’s failed multiculturalism is not Islamophobic

Trump, Hanson and Kruger’s views don’t deserve ridicule

Bernardi can help Turnbull guard Coalition against Hanson

Malcolm Turnbull must connect with conservative base, not Mao

Black and white and Rudd all over

The public has every right to a same-sex marriage plebiscite

New blood will revive Coalition

Other religions do not preach hate like radical Islam

Alberici, West, Green and Birmingham follow Obama on Islam

Anti-Catholic tax activists blind to good churches do for free

Guys, it’s an exciting time to be an offence-taker

Federal election 2016: Media should just let Turnbull be

Sex abuse royal commission fails test of fairness

Federal election 2016: conservatives show disunity doesn’t mean death

US freedom of speech harmed as conservative voices are excluded

Flash of credentials can’t disguise self-interest in taxes letter

Unsubstantiated sex claims ruin the life’s work of good men

Little to celebrate about Ireland’s Easter Rising 100 years on

Terror represents an ‘irritant’ at our collective peril

Liberals flirting with Greens send out a mixed message

Pell’s ‘implausible’ testimony not met with facts to the contrary

Tension in the Coalition room as Liberals celebrate Howard’s win

Cardinal George Pell’s enemies sneer as police leak smears

Tim Minchin’s abusive song fires up Cardinal George Pell haters

Comedic stunts aside, soft borders cost lives

Double dissolution could be Turnbull’s ticket to corral senators

A referendum would hurt republicans

Liberals have lessons to learn from the Robert Menzies era

Kerry O’Brien, Germany’s ZDF avoid responsibility in journalism

Allan Ashbolt’s ghost still haunts conservative-free ABC

George Pell: a scapegoat at the altar of progressivism

2015: failed soothsaying, gross hyperbole and rank trivia

Muddled thinking makes Australia less resilient in face of terror

Malcolm Turnbull needs to focus on Coalition unity

George Pell should be given a fair go at royal commission

Some journalists think Tony Abbott should be seen and not heard

Paris attacks: Apologists lose plot on Islamist threat

Today it’s harder to maintain rage over the Whitlam dismissal

Dismissal a temporary difficulty in our parliamentary system

Anti-coal false prophets lack solutions for world’s poor

With our way of life under threat, focus on what unites us

Children in detention: doctors throw switch to moral outrage

Ex-PM Tony Abbott’s ‘Team Australia’ makes a lot of sens

Partisan ABC allows attacks on non-feral Tony Abbott

Mal Brough speaks on Senate voting as smaller parties fall in Canning

Tony Abbott’s accusations against the media have some merit

Christians should be given special consideration in refugee plan

Christians targeted by sneering secularists at The Saturday Paper

ABC under Mark Scott facilitates decline in media standards

How Menzies would have dealt with conscience votes is guesswork

Plebiscite on same-sex marriage is a reasonable compromise

ABC’s leftist staff monoculture stifles debate of ideas

My friendship with the charismatic, unusual Bob Santamaria

The Queen’s Nazi salute was just the act of a mimic

On criticism and censorship

Academics inflate nuclear war risk yet deride Islamist threat

Zaky Mallah Q&A affair another case of ABC leftist groupthink

The Pope can have his climate change say, but …

The Pope can have his climate change say, but …

Wanted dead or alive: confirmed deductions in biographies

Left-leaning Vanstone starting to emulate a certain former Liberal PM

Broad support of indigenous groups needed for referendum success

Persecutors of Cardinal George Pell wilfully ignore the history

1970s Lebanese Commission led to an immigration debacle

Little respect shown by aggressive ABC interviewers

SBS’s Struggle Street a condescending picture of poverty

Scott McIntyre in poor company as Left loses World War I again

Stalin-lovers Jessie Street, the Webbs unworthy heroes for Shorten ALP

Time to look at contemporary attitudes to our role in Vietnam

Home-grown fascists are a mere blip on the radar

Left’s imagination runs rampant over Abbott and Fraser

Malcolm Fraser’s unreliable memoir makes legacy even more unclear

Labor-Green opposition blocks essential infrastructure in NSW

Radical tolerance for the Left but intolerance towards conservatives

ABC guilty of double standard in coverage of child sex abuse

Left’s tolerance of Islamists exposes hostility to Western values

ABC sees David Hicks, who fought with Taliban, as worthy of an apology

We need to have conversation about economic reform

Senate shortfall obstructs economic reform for Coalition

There’s no need for such pessimism — our democracy is a world-beater

What’s in a name? For the Liberal Party, often a big disadvantage

Intelligentsia ignores ugly new phase in French anti-Semitism

ABC must confront the inconvenient truth about Islamic terrorism

Sydney siege: If it looks, smells and feels like terrorism and the perpetrator says so, then it is

ABC’s bias against the Abbott government has its parallel in Britain

Alienated Bryant’s Rise and Fall misses the point that world leaders respect, admire Abbott

Constant negotiation is key to Senate victory

Unlike his Cairo speech, in Brisbane Barack Obama offended his hosts

ANU’s alarmist Hugh White gets it wrong each time on US-China ‘tensions’

Libertarians like Leyonhjelm naively dismiss terrorists as ‘dickheads’

ABC’s Scott reckless to take on his only friend on the Coalition frontbench

John Kerr acted more honourably than Whitlam and Fraser in 1975

Sorry, Mike, Nazism was a secular movement — unlike today’s Islamic State

Let’s celebrate the party as we fondly remember Menzies, the father of the Liberals

Minority groups should engage in self-reflection, not victim mentality

ABC must present both sides of the debate on terrorism

Commentators need terror guides for dummies

Not much rotten in the state of NSW that PR won’t exaggerate

It’s the lefties and their love-ins — not Abbott — who oppose freedom

Human rights chief shows little appreciation for her brief as an impartial inquisitor

War pact between the Nazis and Stalin left out of history

ABC preys on conservative Catholics over church response to sexual abuse

On the issue of terrorism, the libertarian lobby has been cosying up to the Green-Left

Why did editors take so long?

Historically, action taken by our politicians and military forces in Great War stands up well

An unfair focus on Gaza toll

Palmer and Fraser need to think of the real victims before they employ hyperbole

Putting meat on the bones of a 1957 agreement

Someone tell Friends of the ABC it’s not run by board

Who’s the narcissist now?

Dangerous ideas — Fraser’s Lebanon Concession, for example — should be handled with care

‘Occupied’ East Jerusalem stunt confuses fact and fiction

PM cops all the news that’s fit to print, and all of the spite that isn’t

Strong relations without fawning: a lesson for the campus Left

Populist attacks can make Abbott stronger

No Right to make your case

Fraser’s dangerous delusions on US alliance will find favour with no one but the Left

Shock headlines ruin lives and reputations

Deficit levy right idea for a difficult problem

Parliament will be interesting enough without the myths

Chasers have more power than Mark Scott

A great read with deeply troubling insights into the mind of Carr and his Israel-lobby obsession

Reality becoming a boring, distorted place as inner-city Left displaces the conservatives

Pot, kettle, black: Latham a joke as arbiter of standards

Taxpayers funding Left ABC agenda

Republicans may feel entitled to sneer, but it won’t help their cause

Freedom’ marchers trample on hopes of real refugees

Pro-pederasty past deserves an ABC apology

Press Council overshot its remit on James Ashby coverage

Pell an easy target for anti-Catholic commentators

Media Watch all bark, no bite and very few facts

Sectarian effort to smear PM

Public opinion shows sympathy for some, but never the Catholic Church

It’s easy being Green when you can sneer while on the public purse

John Pilger deploys a bludgeon against ‘racists’ like us

No room in the workplace for IR Club rules

Totalitarian slurs ignore the truth of ASIO activities

Prophet of doom fails to get real

Forecasters take care to avoid truck with facts

Pragmatic Tony Abbott no man’s acolyte

ASIO acting to prevent Australians fighting in Syrian war is not racist

Abbott’s anguish: inner-city types in media dislike him

Spying on Indonesia: ABC disclosures in conflict with its ‘soft diplomacy’

Great moderniser often disturbingly old-fashioned

Tony Abbott is the Prime Minister so get used to it

Julian Assange, Edward Snowden hypocrites over Vladimir Putin, Ecuador

Future for Labor is hit and myth alongside Greens

Twisted logic links the tragic NSW bushfires with the Prime Minister, climate change and abolishing the carbon tax

Bill Shorten win puts paid to emerging conspiracy theory

ABC checks facts of others but does not check its own

All smoke and no smoking gun: Cardinal Pell was quick to act on abuse claims

Blame game should start with party names

Labor's problem not a personality issue – it's about poor policy

Detractors fail to recognise Abbott’s astounding success

Assault on Abbott over Catholicism made in bad faith

Abbott emerges stronger in the adaptation stakes

ALP’s preference strategy unwise and unnecessary

Rudd wedded to an idea that may backfire on him

Rudd has taken a leaf out of the negativity book

Chameleon Rudd keeps opponents and voters guessing

‘Sorry’ would give Rudd credibility

Dr No? Why Abbott is Captain Positive

A Problem Shared Demands Solution

Single and atheist an issue for voters, as are gay unions

Best of enemies: Labor relives its great depression

Assange’s acts of defiance have narcissistic edge