Volkswagen, the world's largest automaker by sales, has admitted it rigged emissions tests in diesel-powered vehicles in the United States.

US regulators have charged the German giant with manufacturing vehicles designed to evade government pollution controls.

The pope is visiting the White House on the day of Yom Kippur, eclipsing the importance of this important day in the mind of Jewish YameriKans... For some YameriKans, Obama is a Muslim... He is not, but this makes a good addition to Mr Trump's three words oratory support group... Meanwhile the Jewish philosophorers of religion tells us that god is calling Kitty home... Boy... Do we have a weird inflated view of our insignificant button-hole fluff in the universe?...

The new so-called “Special Minister of State” Mal Brough made a complete mockery of claims by newly appointed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that his was a government for the 21st century.

Social media users have barely been able to contain their delight at claims in a new biography that British Prime Minister David Cameron put "a private part of his anatomy" into the mouth of a dead pig at an initiation ceremony while he was a student at Oxford University.

Here the drivel by today's Miranda (20 September 2015) reaches the top of amazing graceful Abbottitude... We are told that Abbott was self-flagelling on his bicycle while playing a game of golf with Hockey as his old number 7 iron...

His infinite loyalty could only stretch so far and he was about to dice Joe with his dignity intact by making a dirty deal with his number 4 iron called Morrison...

1. Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch media mogul and prolific tweeter, has made no secret that he preferred Tony Abbott as leader of the Liberal Party. Murdoch's tabloids made no secret of it either. "Malcolm Turncoat," said the Herald Sun, "Smiling Assassin," said the Daily Telegraph after the party room spill.

Malcolm Turnbull projects himself as urbane, cultured, intellectual, intelligent and a devoted family man who can play the prime minister role. He has also paraded values of respecting science, man of the future and a concerned citizen. He may live at Point Piper but he is a good and decent man. Despite being filthy rich, he is here to serve. These are face-book snapshots that we are invited to like.

But as for depth of conviction? This will only be revealed by actions matching rhetoric. But which rhetoric? The old or the new?

A day can be a long time in politics. The election of Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party on Monday night and his installation on Tuesday as Prime Minister has turned bourgeois politics in Australia on its head.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump appeals to veterans on Tuesday, saying a Trump administration would take better care of them while also building up the US military. In a 14-minute speech that had been billed as a major national security address, the real estate mogul chose to stage the event aboard a decommissioned battleship, the USS Iowa.

The Tony Abbott-led government should have done a better job at laying the groundwork for big reforms before it released its first federal budget, the father of the house, Philip Ruddock, said on Thursday.

analysis

It is getting difficult to express in a cartoon all the emotions and trends following the removal of Tony Abbott by Turnbull. But I have tried. Better cartoonist can do better.

Here we have to first note the reaction of the Murdoch Press. Mostly negative. Abbott was the Murdoch's chosen puppet — no-one else. Straight away, the Murdoch Press mentions a $4 billion deal to keep the Nationals happy: a bigger hole in a national budget already in tatters. But all is not as it seems.