Opinion Dominion

Peter Costello wants the quiet life. So does Downer on Insiders this morning. Abbott had a bit of a shocker of a campaign. Turnbull is re...

You only have to draw a round face, cheeks and that chin, and you get something vaguely resembling him. It would have to be the easiest fac...

1. Julia Gillard has been surprisingly non-irritating and pretty gracious on her ABC gig. She seems to have really big ear lobes though. 2...

Take me to your leader - Ruddbot wired for power - Opinion - smh.com.au Annabel Crabbe starts her column like this: Today, Australia may wel...

Dispute boils over in Wentworth - smh.com.au Award winning journalist Caroline Overington hurled abuse at Labor candidate for Wentworth Geo...

Newspoll predicts a cliffhanger | The Courier-Mail One reason to be against a massive win for Labor is purely for entertainment value. Espec...

Business confidence plunges on election uncertainty - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Like the dramatic post title? Expect m...

Such a cute little piglet but then things get curly - Opinion - smh.com.au Annabel Crabbe does a fine, funny column again today. And at last...

There must be a case to be made that Jackie Kelly was the luckiest Howard government politician ever. The surprise delivery of an "asp...

Rudd reckons it would have been easy being Howard A pithy and accurate post by Andrew Bolt, even though I still blame him for much of the Co...

I say there is no way anyone can credibly deny that Kerry O'Brien's approach to interviewing Rudd tonight was (yet again) less aggr...

Australians have a chance to prove they're not all that bad - Opinion Catherine Deveny has a column condemning one half of Australia for...

Like the Duke, just get on with it | Libby Purves - Times Online Libby Purves thinks we can learn something from the attitude of Duke of Edi...

Good news from Iraq. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Hitchens summarises some of the positive reporting coming out of Iraq at the...

Ocean Plankton Reducing Greenhouse Gases By Using More Carbon Dioxide This story on the possible role of plankton in helping the oceans abso...

Howard and Costello in TV love fest - Federal Election 2007 News - theage.com.au Michelle Gratton goes too far in her scathing assessment of...

Observer review: Bad Faith by Carmen Callil I'm about a third of the way through this book, which is a very detailed biography of Louis ...

Woman seen scattering ashes at Disneyland- Travel - LATimes.com Odd story from last week I had missed.

Mind of a Rock - New York Times A pretty good read from Jim Holt here about panpsychism, which he describes as the following hypothesis: Per...