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

Hansonomics: ‘show us [our] numbers’

16 July 2026 1:10 pm

This wasn’t just a funny line from One Nation. It was an abdication...

Discontent mistaken for virtue

16 July 2026 12:55 pm

What drives progressivism and what is its cure

Australia must confront Iran’s shadow war on its shores

15 July 2026 1:04 pm

Recent warnings from Australian security agencies that hostile state actors, including the Islamic regime of Iran, are allegedly targeting teenagers…

Can One Nation break through the glass ceiling to the majors?

15 July 2026 3:03 am

In Australian political history there have been minor parties that were setting up for a big swing but ended up…

Four years of failure from Labor

15 July 2026 2:48 am

The Albanese government’s woeful living standards record

The Dartmoor Silence

15 July 2026 2:25 am

Ann Widdecombe and the price of conviction

What’s wrong with national service?

14 July 2026 5:00 pm

Maybe it’s time we also asked what citizens owe Australia

Were we lied to about skilled migration?

14 July 2026 11:46 am

We believe Australians have been lied to about skilled migration. And analysis of official data only exposes the tip of…

Don’t worry, Big Brother is here to ‘keep you safe’

14 July 2026 11:12 am

‘Overt Live Facial Recognition Technology’ reaches trial stage in Western Australia

The West’s circular firing squad

14 July 2026 9:46 am

Why is the Right held to a higher standard than the Left?

The Cyrus friendship

13 July 2026 1:22 pm

A 2,500-year bond Between Iranians and Jews

Before Lindsey Graham died

13 July 2026 11:52 am

Bringing Russia to the peace table could trigger another oil shock for Australia as loopholes close

Artificial Intelligence and the elephant in the data room

13 July 2026 11:00 am

Can AI be trusted as a reliable source of information?

We are happy to fuel everyone’s nuclear future except our own

13 July 2026 10:25 am

The nuclear economy offers Australia the chance not simply to dig wealth out of the ground, but to create it

The anatomy of a scandal

13 July 2026 10:04 am

What the Establishment thinks of Pauline Hanson, Nigel Farage, and Donald Trump

Arash the Archer

12 July 2026 6:48 pm

In Iranian mythology, Arash the Archer represents the highest form of sacrifice for one’s homeland. His story is not merely…

Conservative civil war is a distraction

12 July 2026 1:40 pm

And won’t get Angus Taylor any closer to being Prime Minister

Ten problems with the Greens’ Anti-Conversion Bill

12 July 2026 3:10 am

In keeping with what we has occurred in many other states in Australia, the Greens in Tasmania are seeking to…

I’m a freelance journalist. AI is stealing my work and calling it ‘training’

11 July 2026 1:45 pm

AI may become the largest uncompensated transfer of creative work in history

My daughter changed my mind about quotas

11 July 2026 1:17 pm

‘That’s a good way to weaken your herd...’

Britain discovers Pauline Hanson

10 July 2026 9:44 pm

And they might learn something from her about surviving the Establishment powers...

The next Senate will be a mess

10 July 2026 2:53 pm

Greens set to retain balance of power, regardless of who wins

What if Binface wins?

10 July 2026 1:31 pm

A key lesson for Australian political observers

I want my country back! Who took it…?

10 July 2026 11:02 am

A difficult question of citizens, political power, migrants, and institutions

The politics of low-cost energy

10 July 2026 10:50 am

Fixing the damage from the forced renewable energy transition could take two decades