In The Australian  today:
"Tony Sheldon’s call for a campaign of “civil disobedience” against Qantas has been hailed in the labour movement. “It’s new thinking,” said the shadow Minister for Offence, Senator Stephen Conroy, “we’ve never tried being civil before.”

In The Australian today:
"There is no passion, said Georges Clemenceau, like that of a functionary for his function. He must have had the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in mind, as it battles the Coalition’s election commitment to abolish it."

In The Australian today:
“Let us rain compassion in the shape of regulations,” urged one of the first accounts of European settlement in Australia.

In The Australian today:
"Fear was all Labor offered voters in Tasmania and South Australia: fear of “cuts”, fear for jobs, fear of change. The mixed outcome, which could see Jay Weatherill cling to power, may convince the party of that message’s potency; but it is neither a credible basis for rebuilding Labor federally nor a viable ­answer to the profound difficulties Tasmania and SA face. "

In The Australian today:
"Far from being an emerging superpower, Russia is a weak state, wracked by cronyism and corruption, and overly reliant on exports of oil and gas. That hardly means Russian aggression in Ukraine can be ignored or condoned. But detestable as he may be, Vladimir Putin is no Hitler and the Crimean peninsula is not the Sudetenland."

In today's The Australian:
"It has hardly been a stellar week for the flailing kangaroo. Not waving but drowning one day, it was not flying but soaring the next. If the aim was to confuse, Qantas’s mixed messages did the trick."