In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Why this crypto winter might be permanent
Just remember: there is no crying allowed at the crypto casino
Mono-fanaticism in a sunburnt country
The most effective political leaders are semi-housetrained polecats, which is also a famous insult. You cannot lay a glove on…
Hate speech and Islamic regulation
Just to recap on how the coalition got into its current pickle. In the wake of the Bondi massacre (December…
Liberals’ wheels fell off with the hate speech laws
The Liberal Party is a sinking ship. Sussan Ley’s team have been up late on WhatsApp to journalists who have…
Nationals taken hostage by the Thin Blue Ribbon
I watched a hostage video on Monday. With four Australian flags hanging in agony as a backdrop, Sussan Ley and…
We are more than a blue square
The Super Bowl ad, antisemitism and why the word Zionist still matters
Please explain… the polls
Recent polling has come as a great shock to those who have not been paying attention, and who are out…
One Nation rises as the broad church collapses
I’m the President of One Nation South Australia, and I was genuinely pleased when Cory Bernardi agreed to join our…
Did we learn anything from the first global warming debate?
One of the enduring and acrimonious controversies in Australian politics concerns the disagreements between those who believe obstinately in the…
Labor is wrecking our Defence heritage … for money
It’s Australia’s version of the Chagos Island deal
Angus Taylor: the last king?
It was presumed, from the eternal silence of the party room, that someone talked Angus Taylor off his horse while…
Neither the leaders we deserve nor the ones we need
This past weekend I was watching The Dark Knight (2008). Not my favourite franchise, but critically acclaimed. One thing that stood…
Tony Abbott’s most hated budget was his greatest act of love
Politics punishes truth-tellers who arrive before the pain is obvious. In 2014, Tony Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey delivered…
A political earthquake is rumbling beneath our feet
Anyone who rules out the possibility of a seismic change in the political scene in Australia is not paying attention.…
Albanese ignores Australia’s natural gifts
Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have… This was a message a visiting pastor pressed home to…
Welcome to the Pornocracy
A society in which political power, culture, relationships, and identity are shaped and dominated by the purveyors of pornography
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The land we forgot to remember
Albanese does not understand the history of Australia
Blind Freddy goes fracking
Useless politicians ignore the vast resources in our own backyard
