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One Nation and the Coalition neck-and-neck

9 January 2026 6:08 pm

In the final weeks of Parliament, both Labor and the Coalition imagined they had One Nation by the balls with…

Sam Groth: the latest casualty of a toxic party?

6 January 2026 6:39 pm

Are you okay, Victoria? Those of us watching the Liberal Party drama from slightly saner states glance at Victorian headlines…

Woke robbed the West of its artistic soul

4 January 2026 12:56 pm

Stranger Things reaffirms modern showrunners can’t stick the landing

Khamenei’s banners are burning in Tehran

3 January 2026 11:53 pm

The people of Iran have been trying to free themselves from the oppressive Islamic Republic for decades. Tonight, hundreds of…

President Maduro of Venezuela captured by US

3 January 2026 10:01 pm

‘The tyrant is gone. He will now – finally – face justice.’

Sydney to Hobart: ‘What a crazy race!’

29 December 2025 12:13 pm

Yachts taking part in the Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart race scattered rose petals in the sea as they passed…

Tony 2.0?

28 December 2025 9:02 pm

What if the Liberals brought Tony Abbott back...

Politicians are washing their hands of Bondi with rushed gun laws

25 December 2025 6:16 pm

Australia’s decision to largely disarm, made under the leadership of John Howard during the 1996 gun buyback, distinguished us ideologically…

Bondi Beach mass shooting terror attack: what we know so far

15 December 2025 12:06 am

ASIO confirms one gunman known to authorities

One Nation’s conservative conversion

14 December 2025 8:36 pm

There are rumours that One Nation is head-hunting another two Coalition members. If true, this is Reform behaviour. Nigel Farage’s…

Frosty relations

14 December 2025 6:29 pm

Treasurer Jim Chalmers made a song and dance about Antarctic investment earlier in December, obscuring the deteriorating situation in Australia’s…

Blood and circuses

11 December 2025 1:39 pm

Ideologically, we are in a mess

Countdown started on Anika Wells as she initiates an audit on expenses

9 December 2025 8:20 pm

If Sussan Ley cannot organise the demise of Communications Minister, Anika Wells, we might as well admit the Liberals are…

Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation and will be the lead NSW Senate candidate in 2028

8 December 2025 12:02 pm

It’s official. Former Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce has abandoned his brief stint as an independent and joined One Nation as…

Vincent Tarzia: taken down by the SA Voice saga?

5 December 2025 6:58 pm

Whoops! There goes another one… South Australia’s state Liberal leader has stepped down after the rumblings of irreconcilable division set…

eSafety Commissioner sets her gaze on electric vehicles

3 December 2025 12:42 pm

Just when you thought range anxiety, sabotaged charging stations, and distance-based road taxes were all you had to worry about…

Politicians want social media to shut up

30 November 2025 10:59 pm

Censorship was never about public safety

G20 leaders ‘defy Trump’ gloating that net zero will cost trillions

25 November 2025 9:41 am

There is something remarkably juvenile about prime ministers, presidents, and media establishments gloating that the G20 Leaders’ Summit has ‘defied…

Nigeria: 303 children and 12 teachers kidnapped

22 November 2025 11:38 pm

It is now believed 303 children and 12 teachers have been taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria after a more…

Why was Turkey so keen to host COP?

22 November 2025 9:40 pm

It is not often we have cause to praise Turkey, but last week they saved the taxpayer $1.5 billion. Well, sort…

Nationals replace Dugald Saunders with Gurmesh Singh

19 November 2025 12:30 am

While the Victorian Liberals were stealing headlines with their surprise leadership switch, the NSW Nationals also changed their leader. This…

Moderates roll Brad Battin with pro-Voice Jess Wilson

18 November 2025 1:27 pm

First female Victorian Liberal leader to set a new agenda

Speculation rife that Andrew Hastie’s time has come

17 November 2025 11:20 am

Too much listening. Not enough doing. Liberal Leader Sussan Ley was warned from the start that her softly-softly approach to…

One Nation accuses Labor of being ‘hypocrites on the world stage’

16 November 2025 6:30 pm

Why is coal suddenly Net Zero when burned in China?

The recalibration of Jacinta Allan

15 November 2025 8:26 pm

Cracking down on youth crime could win Labor another election