ELECTION ERECTION! Dutton goes feral with Yellow Peril

EXCLUSIVE: A man who has launched a legal advocacy firm to fight on behalf of victims of police harassment and strip searches was set upon by NSW Police’s controversial Fixated Persons Unit and placed in solitary confinement for three weeks on trumped-up charges that were later dismissed after Constable Daniel Keneally, the police officer son of high-profile Labor senator Kristina Keneally, allegedly fabricated claims that he had received death threats. Serkan Ozturk reports.

Noted political journalist, Michael Brissenden, has taken some time out away from the news to turn his hand to crime-fiction writing in a novel that also places the cost of Australia’s participation in futile wars in the Middle East to the fore. Charles Sturt University academic, Therese Taylor, gives her take on The List.

Anyone who watches the performances of our politicians during Question Time in Federal Parliament House will likely need a few big bongs to get over it all, writes comedian and satirist Kieran Butler.