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

Trump in chains

19 August 2022 7:00 am

For all their affectations to equality, republicanism, and the eschewing of class systems, Americans nonetheless respect hierarchical privilege. No ‘class’…

Chairman Trudeau’s digital fortress

19 August 2022 4:00 am

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t exactly been a pillar of liberty and democracy over the last two years. His…

A mild case of split portfolio disorder

18 August 2022 12:31 pm

As a one-time senior public servant, I find the debate over Scott Morrison’s supposed power seizure of separate ministries to…

China Rising: taking politics out of national security

18 August 2022 11:00 am

[ This is part 4 of a series. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3 ] Part three of…

Good riddance to Liz Cheney

18 August 2022 9:00 am

The Left is running the West – economically, culturally, and politically. Even when we have a right-wing national leader in…

Rain rain, go away!

18 August 2022 7:00 am

The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite showed that the greatest methane emissions are from the tundra in Canada and Russia, and the…

ScoMo’s secret dysfunction

18 August 2022 4:00 am

Revelations that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly had himself sworn in as minister in five key portfolios, namely: Treasury,…

RAF: the virtue of racism

17 August 2022 4:10 pm

Western civilisation routinely boasts about being the most ‘progressive’ and ‘intellectually evolved’ society in existence. A society, it appears, that…

Queen Elizabeth I was a woman

17 August 2022 12:57 pm

I’m old enough to remember when girls were allowed to reject stereotypes and just be themselves. If girls wanted to…

Matthew Guy is literally history

17 August 2022 10:00 am

The Victorian Liberal Party is very likely to change leaders, again, roughly 100 days out from the Victorian state election…

How the Liberals stuffed up the Senate

17 August 2022 8:00 am

In March 2016, the Turnbull Liberal government joined forces with the Greens to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act and abolish…

A bigger problem than Morrison’s predilection for portfolios

17 August 2022 7:00 am

We must correct the secrecy and overreach of power seen in the pandemic

Self ID 'wild card'

17 August 2022 4:00 am

The Herald Sun is reporting that the women in the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre in Victoria are objecting to what they call…

Eat what we tell you

16 August 2022 2:27 pm

Carbon ratings, meat taxes, and lump sums to allow the poor to 'buy animal products'...

The dangerous zealotry of trigger warnings

16 August 2022 12:00 pm

The toddlers who attend our sandstone creches to earn their arts degrees – all the while feigning hurt from micro-aggressions…

The political quad that rules Australia

16 August 2022 10:00 am

Australia is being run by a political quad who, despite appearances of difference, believe the same things. From New South…

Australia needs a vibe shift

16 August 2022 8:00 am

America’s new right gives hope – and blueprints – to Australian conservatives

New Zealand’s Three Waters coup

16 August 2022 4:00 am

New Zealand’s mainstream media has finally named the elephant in the room. Late last month, the nation’s biggest newspaper, the New…

Climate virtuoso Europe destroys Oder river

15 August 2022 1:11 pm

Fifty years ago, environmentally conscious Westerners were worried about the pollution that often accompanies the trappings of civilisation. Rubbish is…

Sovereignty is a colonising concept

15 August 2022 12:00 pm

Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe entered the Parliament’s Senate chamber with a black power salute and proceeded to disrespect the oath…

Has Pelosi helped square Xi’s Chinese puzzle?

15 August 2022 10:00 am

Napoleon was supposed to have said, ‘Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.’ China is…

Neutered ‘Voice’ a bureaucratic mess?

15 August 2022 8:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed Voice to Parliament is something that a lot of right-wing commentators want to hate, but…

Carbon squeeze: Australia’s dark future

15 August 2022 4:00 am

Australian energy policy is rapidly evolving from expensive virtue signalling to actual disaster. After narrowly scraping through the federal election…

#IStandWithJKRowling

14 August 2022 7:02 pm

‘Horrifying news [regarding Salman Rushdie]. Feeling very sick right now. Let him be okay.’ Author JK Rowling tweeted her concern…

Is Elon Musk next after Trump?

14 August 2022 11:00 am

Whatever your thoughts are about Donald Trump, the man, it’s the apparent weaponisation of law enforcement against Donald Trump, the…