In 1996 when Pauline Hanson called for ATSIC to be abolished and all Australians to be treated equally, she was…

It’s perhaps the single greatest prank in the history of University of Sydney student politics. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:…

The industrial burning of fossil fuels has released CO2 that is purported to be responsible for .7 degrees of planetary…

Apparently, Canberrans have decisively voted for a light rail. At least this is how various commentators have interpreted last weekend’s ACT election result. But…

Readers of Flat White will have noted John Stone’s preview of a forum held at Parliament House on Wednesday. The purpose of the event was to…

On Monday’s Q&A, ACTU leader Ged Kearney claimed that the Government’s proposed reinstatement of the ABCC was about ‘union breaking’…

Like a lot of Australians I’ve been captivated over the last few months by the prospect of a Trump victory. …

If Malcolm Turnbull eventually loses his leadership for a second time, his pathetic arse-over-tit performance on gun control this week…

In Canberra today the Constitutional Education Foundation of Australia will hold a Forum on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians…

ABC boss Michelle Guthrie is in Canberra for Senate estimates today, no doubt being subjected to indignities by hard-right culture…

The Baird government recently announced a $4.7 billion budget surplus for 2015-16, more than a billion dollars above the estimate…

Cory Bernardi has endorsed Donald Trump… kind of. Writing on Facebook, Bernardi said: For millions of Americans worried about what…

Bob Day this morning placed his companies into liquidation and resigned from the Senate. Family First will now chose a…

If you’re lucky enough to live in Melbourne, you may be unlucky enough to occasionally read The Age. While people…

The Greens are close to tightening their grip on political power in the basket-weaving enclave of inner Melbourne with Olivia…

When I was five, my father bought me a “women are not chicks” t-shirt (I wore it on rotation with…

Self-confident democratisation within established political parties turns the tide against weak membership and enhances electoral prospects. These are the lessons…

A mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s UK Diary column in this…

Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…

This is a big deal for someone who was heavily involved with the Women’s Collective at university and helped to…

Voters in the ACT have a stark choice this weekend: Jeremy Hanson and the Canberra Liberals, or four more years…

Compare the pair: This day is call’d the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,…

What limited protection we have in Australia for free speech, is based on the concept of the ‘reasonable person’. In…

According to Buzzf… I mean News.com.au – sorry, for some reason I often make that mistake lately – The Project…