David Fagan
Paris was a showpiece of how great the Games can be. Now, Brisbane, our opportunity awaits
Paris has done its job. We’re all bleary-eyed from early morning gold but in a better mood, helped in Brisbane by a...
Why Donald Trump is not to blame for assassination attempt, US political decline
Just 0.02 per cent. A tiny, tiny proportion but the degree of error or fortune that spared both Donald Trump and the...
If this is supposed to be Peter Dutton’s warm and fuzzy side, why all the arrogance?
Peter Dutton pledged last year we would see a different side of the abrasive and unforgiving characteristics needed to accompany the tough...
Why Murdoch thinks he’ll live for decades – and how he makes plans to prove it
Few people sign up to lifetime commitments in their 60s, 80s or 90s. Murdoch has done all three. In life, like business,...
Get comfy, Jim Chalmers has a mighty story to tell
Federal budgets are as much about story-telling as about balancing columns of figures and hundreds of pages of program statements. I went...
David Fagan: I was clinically dead after a heart attack. This is what I learnt
It took only a day or two after I had died for well-meaning journalist friends to ask the question you’d expect. “So...
Beware angry voters – always peeved, but never quite sure about what
The little obstacles of life are the irritants to remind testy voters of the many ways government at all levels just doesn’t...
The funniest part of Utopia is they’re not making up this stuff
The team behind the upcoming fifth (and hopefully not final) season of the ABC series Utopia doesn’t need secret sources to craft...
The Treasurer has great ideas, but barely a chance to put them into action
Jim Chalmers has less than a month left before he delivers what will be his make-or-break budget. Thanks to the election timing,...
Alas, no poetry, it’s the verbs in this bill that reveal true power of the Voice
Words are the currency of politics – they can be the bouquets or bullets that swing an argument, win over doubters and...