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

The science of twins: why are we so fascinated by doubles?

29 July 2024 1:00 am

Fascination with twins and what twin studies tell us about human nature is universal. There is no question that behavioural…

Labor, the CFMEU, and the war on small business

28 July 2024 11:33 am

Labor governments across the country have expressed their astonishment at the revelation their mates and financiers in the CFMEU might,…

Is radical anti-feminism really the most prevalent extremism?

28 July 2024 12:53 am

A new report from the University of Melbourne indicates that radical anti-feminism could be the most prevalent form of violent…

Don’t kowtow to useful idiots, and say no to a republic

27 July 2024 6:17 pm

So, our young people are increasingly in favour of a republic? Help them pack for the Democratic Republic of Korea,…

Tilting at windmills

27 July 2024 5:46 pm

Chris Bowen’s renewable energy plans are falling into disarray. Environmental legislation, introduced to block new mining developments, is proving to…

eSafety Commissioner no longer pretending to hide political bias

25 July 2024 11:54 pm

Much has been made of Julie Inman Grant’s totalitarian tendencies to crackdown on Australians’ free speech under the guise of…

Is Kamala Harris’ future burdened by her past?

25 July 2024 10:06 pm

Integrity goes to character. Does Kamala Harris pass this test? It is a key question now she is the Democrats’…

Yellow cake road – why Dutton’s nuclear plan is an ‘okay’ idea

25 July 2024 2:52 am

‘The future of our country is incredibly important, we need to have a plan…’ Peter Dutton, June 19, 2024 And…

Minor parties can save the West

25 July 2024 2:17 am

‘Blame Farage for the Tory wipe-out!’ Or so went the rather limp voices in the UK, grasping for excuses following…

Come on boys, be flexible

25 July 2024 2:00 am

To be a working parent with pre-schoolers is a challenge. I write this as the mother of two girls –…

Can Elon Musk solve world hunger?

24 July 2024 2:00 am

When Elon Musk made his multi-billion dollar bid for Twitter (now known as ‘X’), some rather silly things were said.…

How Australia began democracy

23 July 2024 11:38 pm

Nothing bad happened before Australian colonisation in 1788, or good after it. Apart from a modern first-world economy and democracy,…

Restoring the presumption of innocence

23 July 2024 8:58 pm

For a nation that used to pride itself on hosting festivals of ‘dangerous ideas’, there has certainly been a ridiculous…

A pilot plant for Net Zero

23 July 2024 4:06 pm

Let’s use Canberra as the test case for green insanity

Green feels chop over Labor deals

23 July 2024 10:46 am

For New South Wales Labor, green morality trumps forestry

Trump will change the (energy) world

23 July 2024 2:30 am

The film VICE traces the rise of Dick Cheney to the position of US Vice President under the administration of…

Hate speech or censorship? Queensland to give more power to activists

23 July 2024 2:00 am

What began as a worthy goal to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace has been hijacked by activists seeking to…

Peter Dutton must take a stand against the eSafety Commission

22 July 2024 2:36 pm

A new video of a talk by eSafety csar Julie Inman Grant is circulating on social media, revealing what many…

The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead

22 July 2024 1:27 pm

Populists represent the forgotten people

Presidential puppets: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are finished

22 July 2024 11:21 am

‘Inevitability’ – it should be the word for the week. It was inevitable that a tech crash would cripple our…

Decolonisation destroys knowledge

22 July 2024 2:00 am

In 1945, British author George Orwell said, ‘One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no…

Victoria’s government is rotting away

22 July 2024 1:01 am

Putrefaction anywhere is generally unwelcome, but when it occurs in government it’s particularly nauseating. We not only have to bear…

A bone to pick with Biden

21 July 2024 4:50 pm

Permit me a timely if controversial ‘dog with a bone’ essay, in which I play the dog. Here’s the bone:…

The Trump attack and the death of consensus

21 July 2024 10:48 am

Assassination attempts are the boiling point at which politics explodes. They are the final straw, the irascible tension when consensus…

Have we finished creating gods?

20 July 2024 6:54 pm

Since the earliest times, mankind has been creating gods to deal with unexplained phenomena. To the ancient Egyptians, the mere…