Its been the normal hectic parliamentary sitting week in Canberra. As you settle in for a restful weekend, here are five things to reflect on from the week in national affairs
Its not the system which is the problem, it is the people who from time to time inhabit it. Our challenge at every level is to be our best selves. That was Tony Abbott at the launch of a new book by the Australians editor at large, Paul Kelly. Kelly has contended in his newly published history of the Rudd/Gillard Labor period that Australias political system is malfunctioning because it no longer delivers the reaching reform we need it to deliver.