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

To defend the Crown is to defend Australia’s honour

25 October 2024 12:06 am

The happy festivities that took place during King Charles III’s tour were a celebration of Australia, as it was intended.…

My campaign to protect cash

24 October 2024 11:44 pm

It’s one thing for retailers to go cash-only, but quite another for taxpayer-funded government agencies to blithely adopt the same…

Lidia Thorpe should not resign, but be removed from the Senate

24 October 2024 2:21 pm

Senator Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour recently is completely unacceptable and, in my opinion, should result in her being removed from Parliament.…

Dwindling delights and mobile frights

24 October 2024 12:50 am

A former Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, told us life wasn’t meant to be easy, but his borrowed quote left…

International student export earnings overstated as problems grow

23 October 2024 11:48 pm

Mark Twain famously popularised the saying, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ Here he referred…

Copacabana cock-up

23 October 2024 10:47 pm

Holiday homes for the party elite. High-rise slums for the proles

Land tax is socialist and should be banned

23 October 2024 12:43 pm

Stamp duty makes it more difficult to purchase a home. Not only does it increase the initial outlay required, but…

Nearly everything you assume about colonialism and slavery is wrong

22 October 2024 8:47 pm

Nigel Biggar’s, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?

22 October 2024 7:52 pm

Previous fears of overpopulation in nations with high population densities have been replaced by concerns about a declining and ageing…

That poor possum

22 October 2024 6:33 pm

I’m not a vegan. You won’t find me stripping naked, drenching myself in red paint, and gluing myself to the…

The neo-liberal consensus is coming apart

22 October 2024 4:51 pm

The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and…

Crisafulli: me-tooing into office?

22 October 2024 1:21 pm

With polling day nigh in the Queensland election campaign, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has appeared incredibly weak, vacillating, and indecisive…

Misinformation bill resurrects Mussolini’s attack on economic freedom

22 October 2024 12:32 pm

On September 12, 2024, Communications Minister for the incumbent Albanese government Michelle Rowland introduced the Communications Legislation Amendment Bill 2024…

Albo the Houso strikes again

22 October 2024 10:24 am

With his exquisite political judgement, and with an election looming in the next six months or so, Albo intends to…

Kamala Harris and the coconut tree speech

22 October 2024 3:04 am

On May 10, 2023, Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party Presidential candidate, delivered a speech in the White House to Hispanic…

Take teacher training away from universities

21 October 2024 4:46 pm

These places are openly in the business of destroying our country

Sandwich stimulus: Miles is a bad comedy

21 October 2024 4:36 pm

Although commonly attributed to Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, the expression, ‘there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch’ long…

Australia is already a successful nuclear nation

21 October 2024 4:20 pm

ANSTO – the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation – recently celebrated 70 years since Australia’s nuclear age began in…

Prince Harry for Governor-General?

21 October 2024 12:22 pm

As King Charles makes his highly publicised visit to Australia, the question arises: could his son, Prince Harry, be the…

Why not declare Andrew Barr Chief Minister for life?

21 October 2024 12:04 pm

The ACT election has come and gone, and surprise, surprise – Andrew Barr and Labor have won yet again. After…

Tribal delusions in academia: the treason of the intellectuals?

21 October 2024 10:33 am

Throughout human history, intelligent people have believed many weird ideas. Their false and even delusional beliefs often served as the…

Freedom for truth

20 October 2024 11:38 pm

We cannot value what we don’t understand

The value of human life through the eyes of the left

20 October 2024 8:37 pm

The modern left-wing governments and people who regard themselves as the modern left are developing a strange attitude towards human…

It will take more than hot air to fix Labor’s renewables woes

20 October 2024 10:07 am

The wheels are falling off Mr Bowen’s energy policy as the Albanese government heads downhill like an out-of-control billy cart.…

The King’s success will sink republicans

19 October 2024 7:36 pm

King Charles III and Queen Camilla landed safely in Sydney last night, despite a momentary spot of bad weather typical…