Peter Dutton knew Julian Leeser’s view on the Voice when he named him Indigenous Australians spokesman.
Why, then, did Dutton and others not see the sense in a free vote?
They placed Leeser in an impossible position.







‘He believes the amount of work teachers are allocated shows “how little the university cares about the quality of education students are getting”. Exactly.
This is a must-read for everyone in #auspol - our universities need urgent reform: theguardian.com/australia-news…



A cautionary tale: the true story of how my dreams failed to come true and I became a cartoonist instead. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why did Beijing finally budge on its barley tariff?
A WTO report, given to Australia and China a few weeks ago, made it clear Beijing is on track to lose this case.
“The Chinese don’t want this report to surface,” one source told me theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…