IRFAN’S ELECTION ERECTION! The political column guaranteed to help with the HARD choices

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.

The former prime minister’s memoirs do stack up against the better political biographies in a torrid field but it shows a man forlornly in love with himself while ignoring the many calamities around him, writes Gary Johnston.

EXCLUSIVE: He’s the minister with the smug, near-punchable private schoolboy face who seemingly has his finger in as many pies as he can while claiming to represent his constituents. But embattled Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, is now facing serious questions of just how low the ethics in his own office are, and whether a crime may have been committed with his knowledge, or indeed he is now covering up for an old family friend. Serkan Ozturk reports.