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

Warragamba Dam: the political yo-yo of failed water politics

12 May 2024 12:44 pm

Warragamba Dam is spilling again, but it didn’t have to be this way. There have been warnings for decades about…

Think of the kids: student-led learning finally dies

12 May 2024 9:45 am

Most of us were lucky enough to make it through the education system largely unharmed. Today, parents are terrified that…

Victorian budget blues

11 May 2024 2:57 am

The best thing that can be said about the 2024 Victorian Budget is that it’s not as bad as recent…

To stock the book or not?

11 May 2024 2:49 am

A Sydney council is currently under fire for passing a motion to ban same-sex parenting books from the shelves of…

Campus sit-ins

11 May 2024 2:30 am

Let’s be clear. Supporting free speech does not require you to allow people to trespass or to shut down public…

Victoria’s Budget reveals a state strangled by Labor

10 May 2024 3:16 am

Forty years ago, John Cain’s Victorian government commenced an era of extravagant expenditure turbocharged by the Victorian Economic Development Corporation (a…

Home-schooling seeks to avoid the cluttered National Curriculum

homeschooling

10 May 2024 2:52 am

The Queensland government has declared war on the ever-growing number of parents across the state who have decided to home-school…

Kill comedy, kill truth

10 May 2024 2:41 am

French playwright Moliere once said, ‘The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.’ As the share of television…

Free speech … for how much longer?

9 May 2024 2:30 am

US President Franklin D Roosevelt, in 1941, pronounced the four fundamental freedoms necessary for life: freedom of speech, freedom to…

The World Health Organisation’s plan for you this May

9 May 2024 2:00 am

Most Australians are likely unaware of the proposed new World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty or the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR)…

Ten-year Tim condemns Victoria to years of penury 

9 May 2024 1:03 am

Net debt in Victoria is forecast to hit $187.8 billion by 2027-28

Open all hours! Australia’s north is in big trouble

9 May 2024 12:01 am

Stuart Ballantyne views Australia’s dismal military protection

On trade we need more Alexander Hamilton and less Hawke/Keating/Howard

8 May 2024 3:40 am

The Albanese government’s Future Built in Australia plan, if nothing else, has certainly caused an unexpected outbreak of bipartisanship among…

Cognitive warfare: how the West is losing its youth

8 May 2024 2:20 am

Pro-Palestinian student protests across the US have led to allegations of anti-Israel hate crimes and damage to property and occupations…

Bitcoin critics

8 May 2024 2:10 am

Bitcoin critics are exactly the same as the people who blindly obeyed their leaders during Covid. They always appeal to authority. They tell…

Hey Albo, read this…

8 May 2024 2:00 am

Hey Albo, read this! This is something, as Prime Minister, you need to know about. It’s called ministerial responsibility –…

Australian Utopianism: causes and cures

7 May 2024 2:00 am

In his April 2 Press Club Speech, outgoing Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet set out the government’s grand…

It’s the energy, stupid!

7 May 2024 1:31 am

It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent…

Labor, how do I loathe thee?

7 May 2024 12:16 am

I’m probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 per cent primary…

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E11 with Billboard Chris

7 May 2024 12:15 am

Won’t someone think of the children? Billboard Chris – the prospective ‘victim’ of the e-Safety Commissioner’s Twitter takedown order, has…

Digital ID: privacy and liberty are brothers

6 May 2024 4:50 am

This is a variation on the speech I gave over the weekend in Sydney at the One Nation rally against Digital ID.…

Aussie cash: redesigned $5 note goes Woke

6 May 2024 4:10 am

Well, that was predictable, as predictable as the sun rising the next morning, though not as welcome. With the late…

Government versus X: the pacification project must not be challenged! 

6 May 2024 3:44 am

Watching the dystopian-named ‘eSafety’ Commissioner in action is like watching the illegitimate lovechild of a deer caught in the headlights…

Crossing

5 May 2024 12:43 am

The announcer said that the train – crowded with women and their children – was nearing the last station before…

Should business schools promote ‘social’ research?

5 May 2024 12:11 am

One of the curious things of our sophisticated, yet superficial, information age is that the official websites of most business…