In The Australian today:
"In the house of the hanged, said Cervantes, it is unseemly to talk about the noose. But someone needs to remind Bill Shorten of Labor’s fiscal record. From 2010 on, every day brought pledges of a speedy return to surplus; in the end, all Labor left was a sea of red ink."

In The Australian today:
"With RET-seekers descending on Canberra by the corporate planeload, honest citizens need to clutch not only their wallets but also their sanity. After all, as the Red Queen told Alice, it is easy to believe the most impossible things if one has enough practice; and nobody works harder at that than the Greens and their fellow travellers."

In The Australian today:
"In this case too, as with climate change, “the science was settled”: plain packaging would “reduce the consumption of tobacco by about 6 per cent and the number of smokers by 2 to 3 per cent”.

Today in The Australian
"NOT every nanny encourages her charges to take up alcohol and tobacco. But then again, not every health minister is like Nicola Roxon. "

Today in The Australian:
“In the game of the round ball,” Jean-Paul Sartre ruefully observed, “everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team.” So too, alas, in politics. But as in soccer, there are own goals as well: and the government is set to score one with its regulations on illegal timber imports. Unless it changes course, the credibility of its commitment to deregulation will be severely damaged.

In today's The Australian
"Day after day, serried ranks of QCs struggle to make sense of Clive Palmer’s finances. But the abdominal showman’s business dealings are a model of clarity compared with the PUP’s economic policies, which take inconsistency to infinity and beyond."