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

Labor’s selective moral outrage over Candace Owens’ visa

15 October 2025 7:18 pm

The High Court of Australia has ruled unanimously to uphold the Labor government’s decision to deny US commentator Candace Owens…

Pauline Hanson calls on Albanese to return Palestinian refugees

15 October 2025 5:23 pm

Labor remains silent on the question

Remembering the Iron Lady

14 October 2025 11:22 pm

This week (on 13 October) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher. Arguably, no Prime Minister since…

Two years since Victorians rejected the Voice – now we have a treaty

14 October 2025 9:20 pm

The end of equality for Victorians

Public health or political decisions?

14 October 2025 9:10 pm

Brett Sutton’s recent comments that some measures implemented during the pandemic were ‘probably never necessary’ is the kind of nuance…

Sussan Ley reshuffles the shadow cabinet deck chairs

14 October 2025 8:43 am

The moderates will never be modern

Trump triumphs as hostages freed while peace-haters howl

13 October 2025 8:20 pm

In a stunning diplomatic coup, the remaining living Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have finally been released, marking…

ISIS Brides and the ghosts of Raqqa

13 October 2025 3:34 pm

Safety demands vigilance

Chris Bowen is in denial about renewable energy

13 October 2025 1:57 pm

Australia will lose critical industries as coal-fired plants shut down

Why are they still protesting for Gaza?

13 October 2025 10:19 am

Trump brought peace, and the activists are furious

Think before you post

12 October 2025 11:26 pm

Keir Starmer’s digital state of silence

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: Australia has not ‘moved left’

12 October 2025 9:32 am

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has responded to Paul Kelly’s recent article in The Australian where he asserts that Australia has moved to…

No, Albanese and Wong did not bring peace

11 October 2025 7:06 pm

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is copping flak today for what some of her peers are calling an attempt to ‘claim…

Time for a rethink of car manufacturing in Australia

11 October 2025 2:51 pm

Andrew Hastie is right, we should build things again

The Labor Party are genius campaigners

11 October 2025 1:01 pm

And the Liberal Party must learn from them

The net zero myth

11 October 2025 12:46 pm

The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all talking about Net Zero. This condition exists when all the…

Australia solved civilisation’s problems

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11 October 2025 12:45 am

Balanced parliamentary debate was the vision of the first elected head of government in Australia, James Hurtle Fisher, Mayor of…

Is Palestine a legal state?

10 October 2025 8:42 pm

Reflections on the dilemmas of statehood in the 21st Century

Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

10 October 2025 8:07 pm

‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone…

Charlie Kirk and the rise of the new Jacobins

10 October 2025 7:41 pm

Back to the guillotine, the mob, and the terror

How Australia’s green rush lost its way

10 October 2025 3:49 pm

When conservationist Steven Nowakowski quietly began mapping Australia’s renewable energy developments four years ago, few imagined the scale of what he…

Bananas, bureaucrats, and Albanese’s social media ban

9 October 2025 10:11 pm

To determine how bad Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s social media ban is, look at who is applauding it… At the…

AI and the future of the Australian legal system

9 October 2025 9:51 pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been ‘the buzzword’ since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. Amongst concerns raised with the…

After two millennia of exile, Jews are done asking permission

9 October 2025 9:03 pm

Israel and its Jews will not be bullied into silence

The terrifying theft of knowledge

9 October 2025 8:54 pm

Reading and critical thinking: vanishing skills?