I’m not a spiritual person, but surely the persecuted cartoonist has cursed the lot of Tim Soutphommasane from his cloud in the Great Hereafter. Not only did all those sweet gigs for Labor mates vanish on Saturday night, the former AHRC offence-hunter's side-splittingly ill-advised remarks demonstrate why that is a wonderful thing

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How to get an engineless vehicle up a hill was a question salesman Dan had heard before, so he was disappointed but not surprised when customers Bob and Annette decided to keep their aging Coalition Conservative. Good for a few months yet, their big problem was how to get it repaired

By their own estimation, so-called progressives are kind, caring and awash with empathy for all mankind. Meanjin scribbler Patrick Marlborough must have missed that memo, given his aren't-I-smart slagging of the late Bill Leak

Donald Trump shrewdly realised the positive power of negative protests and encouraged every Democrat crank and crackpot in the land to rally outside his campaign stops. It is wrong to say leftist protests never deliver results. They do. But rarely for leftists

My optometrist then told me I had the same problem as Hillary Clinton, whose corrective prism was so clumsily installed it was nothing less than a scandal. I was now seeing the world as did modern America’s worst presidential candidate. Great. Just great.

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I once wanted the ABC auctioned to the highest bidder, but my opinion has evolved. Rather than offload the tax-gobblers in one fell swoop, let us draw out the process one pencil, desk, chair and on-air personality at a time. After tormenting right-thinkers for so long, repayment in kind is overdue