Was Gillian Triggs responsible for political trickery – was she really out to make the Liberal Party look bad?

At the suggestion of Chris Graham, writing on the New Matilda website, those not happy about the government's data retention laws have started copying the Attorney General in on all their email.

It seemed Brits wanting out of Europe and a slow down of immigration couldn't get enough of UKIP, but could their early advantage be slipping away.

We often hear the claim that by stopping the boats we have saved lives. Can we really make that claim? Likely as not, we have just shifted the problem elsewhere.

As Australia prepares for the death of Andrew Chan and Myran Sukumaran, Utah wants to show how barbaric it can be, proposing to introduce death by firing squad.