Barnaby Joyce, a National, hasn't a vote for the Liberal leadership. But he's a man of opinions and now he's on the backbench there are no restraints on his expressing them.

Seven years ago, on 19 March 2011, the war against Libya began. It was led by the United States first through the Africa Command, then through NATO under US command.

This large Australian wasp, Cryptocheilus bicolor, more than 35 millimetres in length, is a predator of the large huntsman spiders (Sparassidae) and wolf spiders (Lycosidae). It stings the spider it in its soft belly in a powerful fight "for the death" which the wasp always win, though the wasp does not kill the spider, just paralyses it. The spider is then dragged to a burrow. The wasp lays an egg on the spider, and conceals the nesting chamber at the end of the burrow. When the grub hatches it feeds on the "alive" spider before pupating in a thin silky cocoon in the cell. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocheilus_bicolor)

We should see ourselves as no more than monkeys in evolution. We are not there yet. 

Climate denialism

This illustration from 1885 in the Bulletin shows "the death of cricket in Australia".

Nothing new.

President Trump’s supporters, up to and including Trump himself, have tried to delegitimize Robert Mueller’s necessary investigation for crassly partisan purposes. But it’s also true that Trump’s opponents, eagerly taking reports of each new crumb of circumstantial corroboration as ironclad proof of collusion, are rapidly delegitimizing the presidency, our government and democratic processes.

You may have had the fortune of having been an "experiencer" of the hilarious comedy called “People of Earth” and should you be slightly bent like old Gus, you would see big-eyed big brain bumbling short alien “Jeff” (played by Ken Hall) as big idiot Trump and cool Nancy (played by a cool Debra McCabe) as nasty Theresa May. Trumble soon dies in the series in the character of Kurt. He may come back as an alien monk —Turdy Abbott...