After a long wait, we finally have a new Dead Philosophers in Heaven.

It's funny 'cause it's true (unfortunately).

The Crikey Worm reports that: `Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made the first full-length speech of his European trip in London, accepting the Disraeli Prize. In the speech, he pointedly said the Liberal Party, as established by Robert Menzies, was a progressive, not conservative, party -- a speech that The Daily Telegraph calls an "intercontinental missile" directed at his predecessor, Tony Abbott.'

Fightin' words!

"Cabon was chosen for the mission because she was a young woman, Arboit believes, different from what people typically thought of as a military type."

Check out the saw playing!

Once you've got the title right, these stories practically write themselves!

I did not know this, but it's bloody sensible.

`The row broke out after Morris was recorded telling an event: “Now I’m sure there will be many people who’ll challenge that, but my response and my request is look at the detail, it isn’t all doom and gloom. Now we get to the real nigger in the woodpile, which is, in two years what happens if there is no deal?”'

From what corner of her brain did she dredge such an outrageously dated phrase?!

Australians have a sense of the violence of their history in terms of the brutality experienced by its convict settlers, and the often hostile and alien environment all new arrivals faced. But to the genocidal violence meted out on the continent's indigenous population we remain largely oblivious. I think this project is an important step.