Ken Parish over at Club Troppo excoriates Michelle Grattan’s “analysis” that the existence of a High Court challenge to the government’s Malaysia-deportation plan shows that “it’s a shambles”: What does Grattan mean by this? That Hayne J was somehow passing judgment on the Gillard government’s competence? In fact his remark is the sort of theatrical [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Elizabeth Farrelly is having second thoughts about this whole democracy thing: But democracy, the tyranny of the majority, may yet prove an own goal for humanity, mainly because of the weird trick it does with scale; allowing us all to pursue our own happiness as if we were the only ones [...]