This afternoon former Liberal Party leader and opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull appeared to be inching closer to declaring his candidacy for tommorrow's leadership spill in Canberra.

This week Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott knighted Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, for his services as the consort of the Monarch of Australia.

I salute fellow Green supporter and one of this country's finest authors, Eleanor Catton, for her comments criticising the neo-liberal, profit obsessed policies of the John Key National Government.

On Monday morning, I pumped my fist in the air at the news that Syriza had won in Greece. After two failed attempts (caused by a massive scaremongering campaign waged by the Greek and European elites) the Greek people overcame fear and elected hope.

I want to briefly pay tribute to Green Co-Leader Russel Norman who in a shock announcement yesterday announced his intention to stand down at the Greens AGM in late May.

As a blogger and writer, I join many millions of people around the world in condemning the shocking, violent murder of 12 journalists at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris this morning.

The old nursery rhyme 'The Grand Old Duke of York' recounts how an early Duke of York, Prince Frederick, led a disastrous military campaign in the early 19th century against another European army.