Julia Gillard says she has no regrets about calling the election so many months in advance and believes Labor can still win, despite repeated polls showing the party is set for an historic defeat.

Never before has Australia’s political coverage been so poorly regarded by the public; Tom Orren says this reputation is well-deserved — and here he explains why.

We are at the beginning of the exposure of a long haul of deception and deceptive manipulation... Deception is not new. What is new in this world of goggling each others is the scope and the ramifications of such deception.

Spy drones used in American skies: FBI

So just in case anyone wasn’t sure, a major study of almost 12,000 scientific papers on global warming between 1991 and 2011 finds less than one per cent disagree that humans are the main cause.

From Pete Costello

Period of Record

420,000 years BP-present