Labor might have won the Eden-Monaro by-election this weekend, but Anthony Albanese’s victory smile looked about as certain as an exotic...

I USED TO SNIGGER at the sort of conservatives who upheld “the family unit” as the “foundation-stone of our society”. On the one hand, it was tantamount to asserting that the Law of Gravity draws all things towards the centre of the Earth. On the other, it was conservative code for cracking-down ruthlessly on the contraception and abortion services that allowed women to commit carnal sins with impunity. More simply: it was either a statement of the bleeding-bloody-obvious, or a declaration of reactionary intent.

This week I’m going to help Clare Curran remember some of her past history. Then I’ll share with you the uncanny coincidence of the appearance of a baby whenever the government finds itself in hot water. Lastly I will delve into what appears to be a very deep puddle of wetness inside National as they try to out-woke Labour in this election.

[...] The ability to feed them if you breed them is of no interest to the Greens. Instead, taking the planning out of family planning comes with a new financial reward. Sole parents will have a $110 top-up to their GMI bringing it to $435 a week.

[...] being seen as, or rumoured to be, any kind of racist seems to be the new immoral equivalent of being seen as an atheist in the 18th and early 19th centuries.