Dutton's frontbench - a basket of deplorables ... Regressive Opposition climateers ... Any questions for Pretty Boy Taylor? ... Sussan Ley can't count ... Puffery from Nine fish wraps for Sloppy Joe Hockey ... Blundering hack forces Smellograph grovel ... Jubilee Queen, the hard-headed lobbyist . . . 500 Words or thereabouts is taking a winter break, returning the week of July 4
Tag: Politics
Dutton dressed as lamb
Dutton - not the brightest lump of coal on the slag heap ... Fake moderates pick their moments ... Brother Scott's "preservation age" ... The Liberal gift for Labor's win in WA ... Lachlan Murdoch's strategy for new revenue as old media withers ... Culture wars for the uncultured
Frontline dispatches
A nation riven between optimism and pessimism ... Christian Lobby helps Modern Liberals by campaigning against them ... Sharma's battleground tricks and treachery ... Crossbenchers in NSW give the minority government a reformist leg-up ... Thereabouts with Bertrand Russell
Scotty’s watchdog
Morrison's camel ... New brooms at ICAC ... Plan to thwart public hearings backfires ... Hiding in the bushes ... Jarndyce v Jarndyce rolls on ... Media lobbying to derail the Roberts-Smith story ... Below the line for unelectable Liberal ... New book examines Malcolm Turnbull's ego ... Bookshelves Brandis gets off the bandwagon
Eggshell diplomacy
Visual and auditory stimulation ... The role of oestrogen ... Liberal luminaries duck for cover ... Porter goes perpendicular with an orbiting Planet ... Coalition implodes over net nought ... Thereabouts ... Wild enthusiasm for Little Winston
Albo the albatross
This miserable election ... Door knocking in Liberal seats ... Bunter Downer wants Independent women to make way for tired mates ... Campaign to stop perks for pollies ... A new version of democracy where citizens speak ... Superannuation spoils for the political class ... And more ...