Stuck in high school:Why are candidates boasting about their academic records?

Stuck in high school:Why are candidates boasting about their academic records?

Paul Keating left school at 15 and that didn’t stop him from winning accolades for being an economic reformer.

  • byJanine Perrett

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Politicians trash-talking their leader is not new,but here’s what worries the PM most about the Berejiklian text leak

Politicians trash-talking their leader is not new,but here’s what worries the PM most about the Berejiklian text leak

It’s not what it said so much as the timing of the leak - amid a bitter internal Liberal Party brawl in the countdown to the federal election.

  • byJanine Perrett
Why wouldn’t the Liberals run a candidate with ICAC baggage - the ALP did

Why wouldn’t the Liberals run a candidate with ICAC baggage - the ALP did

An appearance in the ICAC is survivable - it helps if no adverse findings are made.

  • byJanine Perrett
Boo! Berejiklian’s bad luck with men is a scary affair

Boo! Berejiklian’s bad luck with men is a scary affair

The Premier never had much luck with men,even the ones she didn’t choose.

  • byJanine Perrett
Porter shows bar is now so low for parliamentary accountability it’s getting hard to see

Porter shows bar is now so low for parliamentary accountability it’s getting hard to see

It will now be left to the poor voters in his WA seat of Pearce to determine just how immune the electorate has become to the litany of scandals,conflicts and contempt.

  • byJanine Perrett
Maggoted? It would be kinder to say tired and emotional

Maggoted? It would be kinder to say tired and emotional

While a senator denies she was intoxicated in the chamber,the episode perhaps exposes Australians’ tolerance for political drinking - and a national fascination with the terminology for inebriation.

  • byJanine Perrett
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Millennials’ FOMO fuelling the new YOLO economy

Millennials’ FOMO fuelling the new YOLO economy

YOLO may not be a new idea,but Millennials have made it their own and are changing the economy along the way.

  • byJanine Perrett
No amount of spin is likely to save our cricketers from this new PR disaster

No amount of spin is likely to save our cricketers from this new PR disaster

Only three years ago,Australian cricketers were accused of a “culture of arrogance” but now they’ve flown into another public relations storm.

  • byJanine Perrett
Gladys Berejiklian is a political animal in a fight for survival

Gladys Berejiklian is a political animal in a fight for survival

It's been one hell of a year for a Premier who has had to suppress far more than the current COVID-19 outbreak.

  • byJanine Perrett
All the big questions for 2021 – and quite a few littles ones too
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All the big questions for 2021 – and quite a few littles ones too

How do you have an affair during a pandemic. How are the rich getting richer. And can things get any worse?

  • byJanine Perrett
The larger than life newsman with a big-hearted talent

The larger than life newsman with a big-hearted talent

Passion,compassion and laughter were the hallmarks of this talented journalist,who fled a divided America in the early 1970s to call Australia home.

  • byJanine Perrett