Plus: the Greens cop flak on Q&A, and the oddest explanation for Trump we've seen yet
You read it here first! The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday: Teachers have warned Australia's future is being put at risk after a new report found students who received ATARs below 50 are now three times more likely to be admitted to university than they were four years ago.
Or maybe not. Readers of this newspaper would have experienced some deja vu. The Weekend Australian, Saturday: University offers to students with ATARs below 50 have trebled in just five years despite escalating concern over student quality, particularly in teacher education courses. Offers to low-ATAR school-leavers increased in all disciplines this year, with the greatest growth in allied health, business and society and culture degrees. New government data shows that offers to students with ATARs under 50 have risen from 3607 places in 2012 to 9723 this year. Alarmingly, that number increased by 2624 on last year. 
The Australian's Julie Hare has been following this issue for a while. The Australian,   January 21, 2015: Can anyone seriously argue that a school-leaver with an ATAR below 40 is going to succeed at university? He or she didn't do well at school, so why is higher education going to be any different? It's an opportunity cost to students and a waste of scarce government dollars.
And we thought Q&A would have been a friendly forum. Richard Di Natale ominously wonders why he wasn't included in the leaders' debate, Q&A, ABC, Monday: We would've really enjoyed the opportunity to put our vision to the Australian people â€¦ Our time is coming.
Trade Minister Steve Ciobo, though, is not so keen on that idea. Q&A, Monday: Mate, you can sit there and be arrogant about it â€¦ but I mean the reality is â€¦ most Australians don't identify with Greens policies. They're not in favour of legalising drugs, they're not in favour of opening up our borders to bring as many people as possible from overseas.
Labor MP Terri Butler puts it more succinctly, Q&A, Monday: You are not at the debate because you do not have the capacity to become the prime minister after this federal election.
David Feeney's reverse-Midas touch continues. The embattled Labor MP on Twitter, Tuesday: Wonderful school community! Maharishi School in #Reservoir today secured $500,000 for new facilities in local win.
Indeed, though as the Herald Sun reported on   April 18: The $6000-a-year Maharishi School, which teaches transcendental meditation, is being reviewed for a possible breach of the minimum standards for school registration. The Dundee St school is down to just 49 enrolments after losing half of its student population (97) in a mass exodus of parents and their children last year.
Pornography leads to Trump. Wait, what? Matthew Schmitz with a novel theory on the Republican's rise, Fairfax websites, Tuesday: Even the rise of Donald Trump provides evidence of pornography's social harm. How to understand the success of Trump's makeup-caked, misogynistic candidacy, except as an eruption on to the political stage of the pornographic subterrain?
Make love, not wurst. Radio Free Europe website, Tuesday: Sausage-wielding extremists attack vegan cafe inTblisi.