NEW YORK — The killing of an Iraqi journalist, shot dead by unidentified gunmen Tuesday, highlights the dangers facing reporters in a conflict that has claimed more media workers' lives than any since World War II, a watchdog group said.Riyad Assariyeh's killing coincides with the release of a Reporters Without Borders report entitled, "The Ir […]

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving in 2006 has sued his department, claiming he has been ostracized by the department since the incident.Deputy James Mee sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Monday.Read More... […]

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The Presidential elections of 2008 may very well go into history as the greatest event in American elections. Even if candidate Obama wasn't your first... […]

From my journalist friend Zenon Zawada, ont he ground in Kyiv, Ukraine Zenon Zawada Kyiv Bureau Editor The Ukrainian Weekly Circus at the Rada The... […]

With two country independents backing Gillard, the Labor party will now pass the only threshold needed in Australia to form government – a majority on the floor of House. There is no other test, there is no other requisite, there is no other qualification needed to control the Treasury benches. But this constitutional reality will not […]

Inspired by a weird little exchange on Twitter where I asked “I wonder how different things would have been if John Watkins was made NSW Premier after Bob Carr?”, to which @BronwynHinz replied “I wonder how different things would have been if John Hewson beat Paul Keating in 1993 and Howard never became PM” – […]

OK, so it’s an odd title, but it’s an odd week! First up, it’s worth looking at the two party swing toward and away from the ALP that each seat experienced as a function of the notional ALP two party preferred of that seat heading into the election. If we break them down by state, […]

Over the last 30 years or so, probably longer, the size and distribution of the informal vote that we see at every election can be largely explained by a handful of variables – with the election on Saturday being no exception. The first of these variables is ballot length – the number of candidates we see […]

One of the big questions floating around the post-election limbo dance is whether ALP State government and state party parliamentary performance had an impact on the ALP results in the federal election. If we look at the two party preferred margin of the State ALP parties at their most recent poll (all Newspoll here except for […]

Holy animated Australian election news from Taiwan, Batman! […]