Christine Milne, the Greens leader, is taking a bit of a hammering on Facebook for her comments on Tony Abbott’s national security address.

Prime Minister Abbott has played the fear card, but his National Security Address fell a little flat. What he needed was a dramatic music backing.

Gay couples in Alabama can be married, after the US Supreme Court overturned the State's ban. But it doesn't end there.

Craig Stephen Hicks killed three young Muslim students near the University of North Carolina. An example of hate crime.