In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The death of the heroic political backstory
Why the age of the carefully curated origin myth is becoming harder to sustain
When did normal become ‘far-right’?
The valid concerns of Australians have been wrongly branded as radicalisation by politicians and the press
Woodside drops $7 billion low-carbon investment target
Is the balance of power shifting away from Net Zero projects and investments?
One Nation is winning the battle for the somewheres
But the party needs to be wary about its flirtation with the anywheres...
The orange waters of Secret Harbour
There are no such thing as safe Labor seats anymore, according to Luke Herdegen
Can Victoria send Albo a melon-surrender bin?
While the fabric of Australia is tearing itself to bits, the national conversation remains preoccupied with the Prime Minister’s melon…
Tanya Plibersek’s history lesson for young Australians
Is this really the best time to be a first home-buyer, or are young people being left behind?
Checking in on the health of our government
Because the people of Australia are feeling quite unwell
The standard you walk past
The new Carroll government has reinvented itself as the not-Jacinta-or-Dan Collective
The Curley problem of cynical vote harvesting
And how his modus operandi has been used effectively by political leaders since
Immigration confusion
A recent policy change by One Nation has revealed a lot of confusion about immigration policy, and which numbers really matter
Shahriyaragan: The ancient Iranian tradition of ideal kingship
This essay concerns a desire that Iranians have preserved deep within their collective soul for centuries, a longing for the…
Stories from the edge of the world
Chauncy offers the other pole: a Tasmania where human beings can flourish
Our universities are captured and don’t even know it!
How education lost all sense of reality inside the identity politics echo chamber
If super is really our money, prove it
Senator Pauline Hanson is right that super is deferred pay, and wrong about what follows from it
The trouble with Utopia … is us
Conservatives don’t expect politicians to fix human nature. The Left does...
Two dead families’ worth of grief, and one theory
...the mind broke, therefore the person cannot answer for what the broken mind has done
Albanese thinks his government is anger-proof
...because he is safe, so long as there is nowhere for the protest vote to go
People and politics now polls apart
Labor is paying the price, but the Coalition isn’t collecting the benefit
The Lord’s Prayer is inclusive. Acknowledgement of Country is not…
The secular prayer taking over Australia is more divisive than its Christian predecessor










































