Judith Ireland
Judith Ireland is an online political reporter for The National Times, and a columnist for The Canberra Times.
For fix sake, someone sort out Rudd and Gillard
Judith Ireland Kevin Rudd may be busy offering his assistance to the Labor Party, but he is not the only ALP member here to help.
Rudd keeps Wilde-est dreams to himself
Judith Ireland Irish author and poet Oscar Wilde wrote that ''life imitates art far more than art imitates life'', muses Judith Ireland.
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A day of heads and socks, pulled and put
Judith Ireland It's a weird old day when Kevin Rudd is standing up, telling the Labor Party to behave itself. I mean, what has Labor come to when, after a bout of mal-discipline, it is the member for Griffith to...
Plot gets murky rather than thickening
Judith Ireland Espionage and politics are what you may call first cousins once removed.
Ending of political thriller is shrouded in mystery
Judith Ireland Look one way and cabinet members are denying or not commenting on reports they are rethinking their support for the Prime Minister.
Parliament's little games so taxing for the PM
Judith Ireland Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step away from the Popemobile was met with surprise as well as understanding around the world. If one can't retire at 85, how could there possibly be a God?
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Turnbull's plaintive cry not all that questionable
Judith Ireland Just how much power does Malcolm Turnbull wield over the wild world of Australia's Parliament?
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Holy mackerel! It's a fishy, but familiar business
Judith Ireland Nothing can stop HMAS Rudd trawling. Even if he has been banned for two years.
Angry little Vegemite's prima donna effort
Judith Ireland For almost 18 months, Kevin Rudd has grinned that mile-wide grin of his and borne it.
Time suddenly on Abbott's side
Judith Ireland Has Christopher Pyne taken up painting by numbers? Is Tony Abbott now having midday spa treatments? Perhaps Julie Bishop is enjoying 12-course lunches with matched wines and petit fours and Warren...
Carr's brekkie delivers best line on Abbott
Judith Ireland Robert John Carr has been many things in his 64 years.
On the QT
House of insults drives Gillard to distraction
Judith Ireland It would be fair to say that politics is an insult-heavy game.
