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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

The warning of history from the Iranian nation to Europe

21 October 2026 5:13 pm

The alliance of the Red and Black reaction and the price of silence in the face of terrorism

We must defend patriotism, or end up like France

21 October 2026 3:33 pm

The Left has a hell of a lot to answer for in this country

The cost of opportunity

21 October 2026 1:03 pm

How the cost-of-living crisis threatens to deepen Australia’s educational divide

It couldn’t happen here, until it does

20 October 2026 6:46 pm

The French Revolution overthrew the king only to install an emperor. Now the rioters are overthrowing the French...

The missing middle ground of Australian politics

20 October 2026 4:03 pm

How the sceptic was squeezed out, and why the extremes are all that’s left...

French flames have exposed the West’s darkest rot

20 October 2026 2:54 pm

France’s burning streets have illuminated an ideological and cultural crisis the West can no longer afford to ignore

How Suez crisis crashed the Hungarian Revolution

20 October 2026 1:39 pm

A 70th Anniversary history lesson

Aborting principles

20 October 2026 12:26 pm

Abortion policy was Labor’s first test of Jess Wilson and her campaign team – and they failed

The ‘almost’ answers of our eternal political class

19 October 2026 3:04 pm

When was the last time you received a straight answer from a politician?

The invisible dragon beyond the castle walls

19 October 2026 2:17 pm

The greatest threat to our freedom may not be Artificial Intelligence, but the political institutions determined to control what it allows us to know

The tiger in Antalya

19 October 2026 1:12 pm

Canberra heads to next month’s UN climate summit holding exclusive authority over the negotiations and almost no leverage

Immersive French dining comes to Melbourne

19 October 2026 12:16 pm

It’ll be a journey through space, but also a journey across French history, where living becomes an art, where art in all its forms is exalted

France is burning again. Australia should take notice.

18 October 2026 8:17 am

France has long embraced subversion. Its revolutionaries, rebellious students and intellectual provocateurs occupy a cherished place in the national imagination...

CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM BURNS FRENCH CULTURE – and Australia’s descent into censorship | S3 Ep 24

18 October 2026 4:00 am

In this episode: Far-left riots bring France to its knees while President Macron attends #CelineDion concert. Australia’s Royal Commission into…

CPAC failed to answer who will lead the Right to the next election

17 October 2026 2:58 pm

How does a divided centre right avoid the horror of handing Labor a third term to continue wrecking everything? That…

The pathetification of Australia

17 October 2026 2:02 pm

Albanese is importing the UK’s dreaded thought police

When does a police force become an army?

17 October 2026 1:56 pm

How did a police force created by a peace agreement become an organisation against which Israel now considers it prudent to prepare a war plan?

One Nation, the only answer to Uniparty’s sinking ship

16 October 2026 8:14 pm

Sometimes there are moments when One Nation seems a bit over the top. Take for instance NSW One Nation leader…

Russia’s plague scare and the long shadow of Covid

16 October 2026 6:28 pm

The incident has become a revealing test of public trust, government transparency, and the lasting psychological impact of the Covid era.

The High Court and the carbon dioxide hoax

16 October 2026 5:50 pm

This case represents a landmark precedent in Australian environmental and administrative law

Chalmers’ Budget five months on

14 October 2026 9:06 pm

Unintended consequences or planned outcomes?

Push back against your piano robot

14 October 2026 6:14 pm

Artificial Intelligence may one day both outplay and playout humanity

The Josh Frydenberg media tour

14 October 2026 2:53 pm

The former Treasurer represents the political legacy Liberals need to confront: Net Zero, mass immigration, big spending and the triumph of metropolitan liberalism over conservative instincts

Climate attribution the ultimate abuse of science

14 October 2026 1:12 pm

When speculative pseudoscience becomes a weapon of lawfare

Penny Wong vs Ralph Babet

14 October 2026 10:17 am

Labor’s virtue-signalling moral panic over Russian oil falls apart in biggest trading partners, China and India