"Almost immediately, the parade of aggrieved, disappointed, distressed, shocked, disbelieving, sad, angry Catholics and other Pell supporters began moving like a sullen, offended beast across the media, in unedifying protest..."

"Ten entire years, and I still don’t think one single day has passed without me mentioning – or at least thinking about – the fires"

"Villagers are traumatised and very scared. They have fled into the jungle. Christmas should be a time of peace but not a time of fear."

"While Queensland is burning, the east coast is parched & Sydney is drowning, most pollies [politicians] have their heads in the sand. Not good enough."

"Funny how they call young people snowflakes and entitled when they are the most emotional, inconsistent and self-serving lot in this whole country."

The message from Australia's human rights law conference: We cannot just “support human rights until it gets hard”.

"I've been to rallies that felt like a funeral march. But this was powerful. Every one of the 120,000 ppl on Melbourne's streets today is fired up... to #ChangeTheRules!"

"How do we go from a darkness where we have dehumanized refugees and militarized responses, to one where we reclaim a shared human identity?"

The Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has resigned after his affair with a staff member turned the spotlight on his political integrity.

"I cannot thank the AFL for allowing me to do something that is open to every other Australian and which the science and research has supported all along."