Tom Burns

It was clear that the hostage-tak­er want­ed me­dia at­ten­tion and Aus­tralian me­dia gave him what he want­ed.

Tony Ab­bott’s gov­ern­ment has had a bad few weeks and is like­ly to have a few more.

Video game tour­na­ments at­tract ma­jor spon­sors and of­fer huge prize monies. It’s time to take them se­ri­ous­ly.

Why do some feel their pub­lic im­po­si­tion of per­son­al val­ues is jus­ti­fied on this is­sue?

Why are coun­tries spend­ing mil­lions of dol­lars in search of the miss­ing Malaysia Air­lines plane?

Prime Min­is­ter Tony Ab­bott might face po­lit­i­cal dead­lock over bud­get poli­cies.