Best macarons de Brisvegas revealed

Is Brisbane going soft? The Courier-Mail explores the city’s best macarons….…

Liberals go for Labor jugular with ads

The signing ceremony with matching wattle-lapels between Labor and the Greens political party is still haunting them, just as we said it would..…

SHANDY SOUFFLE PUFFS UP: Adam Shand jokes he’s “disappointed” his former cricket coach Peter Roebuck didn’t beat him

Adam Shand was “coached” in cricket at Cranbrook by dead sex-predator Peter Roebuck. Days after Roebuck’s death, ‘Shandy’ was on Triple M radio joking about Roebuck’s criminally abusive behaviour and advancing crackpot theories that Roebuck could have been thrown out of the hotel room window, from which he jumped, by South African police. It’s not cricket.

Peter Roebuck’s respected mate speaks up but raises more questions than answers

The Australian’s true blue Christopher Pearson gives perhaps the first honest appraisal by someone giving Peter Roebuck the benefit of the doubt over claims he was engaged in sexual abuse of young people in his care. Pearson is someone whose …

Katter party could do well in Queensland state poll suggests country member Dorothy Pratt

Former One Nation MP turned long-time country independent Dorothy Pratt, who occupies Sir Joh’s old seat in Kingaroy, thinks Bob Katter’s party is in the same position as One Nation was in 1999 when they shocked the political establishment and …

Margaret Simons is a compost-sexual

Left-wing media critic Margaret Simons professes her enthusiasm for compost, prompting the wonderful Gerard Henderson to declare her a ‘compost-sexual’:

Compost is earthy and sexy in both the literal and metaphorical sense. The smells of sweet, well-made compost are not …

Peter Roebuck friend: “I did have concerns about leaving him with a house full of vulnerable young boys”

It keeps getting worse for those who’ve blindly defended disgraced dead Fairfax/ABC cricket commentator Peter Roebuck, ignoring his criminal history of physical and sexual abuse, and the terrible situation where he was paying nearly twenty young men to live in …

HEAR THEM SCREAM: The Age of pain can’t hack waiting for the axe to fall

The Age has finally broken its silence on the newspaper’s hacking scandal. It’s primal scream meets news-reporting.