The Orstrahyun

For now, at least, the appearance on Bureau of Meteorology radar of a giant 'S' off the coast of Western Australian is unexplain...

The infamous boogie board bag and 4 kilos of cannabis As Schapelle Corby gets closer to release from jail, here's a recap of one of...

Nick Cater, senior editor at The Australian, went on ABC's QandA panel last night and made hilarious claim about Rupert Murdoch's T...

Rupert Murdoch's The Australian newspaper couldn't commission Newspolls fast enough when Tony Abbott and the Liberal/Nationals coali...

By Darryl Mason In the world of Social Media Fails, and in politics there has been plenty, it's pretty hard to top this. Here's ...

The Daily Telegraph's editor Paul Whittaker, Rupert Murdoch and The Australian's editor Chris Mitchell (right) Well this was un...

Beautiful slo-mo of saltwater crocodiles in action, by Allen Dixon at NT's Crocodile Cove. Quite hypnotic:

'Coreeda' is being used to control aggression in young people in Western New South Wales, but it's also good for fitness...

 How crazy are the heatwave extremes now frying West Australia, South Australia and Victoria? Well, the Northern Territory News is claiming ...

Comedian Robin Williams knows more about Australia than most Australians might think. He practically lived here, in a beach house on the...

Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott writes for the Daily Telegraph, in a front page "exclusive" about Sydney's drun...

This piece written by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne was paywalled by The Australian. Here is is for free: A robust, relevant...

 Personally, and coming from an old Australian family that had more than a few members serve during World War I, I think Paul Keating...

Yes, I've neglected the hell out of this blog, and my other blogs, during 2013. I've missed a lot of great stories and untold contro...

Former, and hugely defeated, prime minister John Howard gives a speech warning about climate change "alarmism" under the title...

By Darryl Mason Vote Puppy! From The Australian today:    I won't add to the Election Day opinion tsunami too much, except to say...

It's a special kind of humiliation for the remaining decent journalists at Rupert Murdoch's crumbling Australian newspaper empire th...

You have to pay this, very well done. A John Howard potrait features on the wall of the Abbutt, and on the wall of the Ruddik is a framed Ke...

Newspoll, you're so damn finicky. So according to Newspoll, in just six days prime minister Kevin Rudd has gone from being at...