No one called Martin Bryant a good bloke. I can’t confirm it but I suspect it didn’t even cross anyone’s mind back in 1996 when he committed the deadliest mass shooting in Australia’s history. T…
Study finds men more knowledgable than women on politics, and media bias could be to blame
The downfall of our first female PM might indicate that politics is still a boys club, but a new study reveals that knowledge of politics may also be a male arena. Researchers from the UK’s Econ…
Bernard Keane: Media, misogyny and the Gillard years
The press gallery will be happy: there’s been a leadership spill, a prime minister dumped, mass cabinet resignations, plenty of action. It would have been better if it had been today, allowing m…
Did anyone try to help Nigella Lawson?
Shocking photos of former advertising executive and art dealer Charles Saatchi with his hands around his celebrity cook wife’s neck have been published all over the world in recent days. In coun…
How I met the PM and became part of the ‘strategy’
Last Wednesday I received an invitation from the Prime Minister’s chief spinner John McTernan to attend Christmas drinks at Kirribilli House. The invitation was a little vague, not requesting my…
