Opinion: Whatever you think of the result, the Novak Djokovic saga was an impressive display of incompetence, writes mrseankelly
The Australian political calendar tends to begin just after Australia Day. This makes sense. Before then, many voters – as well as politicians – are on holiday. People are recovering from the previous year, gearing up for the next. It’s not a good time to ask people to pay attention to politics.released its draft national plan to end violence against women and children
This was, as Brittany Higgins put it, “breathtakingly disrespectful”, on an issue the government has often seemed unable to approach with sincere interest. Or, to put this with a little more nuance: a world in which the pandemic is affecting almost everything, with concerning consequences, and a world in which it exists only as an abstraction that, if used in the right ways, can be politically useful.