The Magna Carta forced King John to give away powers. But big business now exerts a chilling grip on the workforce

Chief government whip Joel Fitzgibbon has reiterated his comments that political leaders who are unpopular are unlikely to survive.

Mr Fitzgibbon said this morning that he still believed Prime Minister Julia Gillard had time to turn her dire polling numbers around.

The ALP has been attacking the Greens and talking about Labor values.  Here’s how the Prime Minister described Labor values in a speech last year. She said:

Olympic security is in disarray, but organisers are taking no chances with corporate deals...

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armoured cars carrying Clinton's delegation in the port city of Alexandria.

Was John Howard’s Australia the place admirers like Tony Abbott promote?

‘The Happy Land’ is Graham Jackson‘s satirical alternative reality.