In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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
Angus Taylor: ‘The Labor government is f**kin’ sh*t…’
Am I the only one who thinks the optics of the Pollie Pedal event, despite being for a good cause,…
Prime Minister, why should data centres underwrite wind if it is so cheap?
Wind is intermittent, but its government support is not...
Do politicians have the right to block citizens on social media?
Politicians, or perhaps their shallow-minded media managers, have been going crazy with the ‘block’ button. If you call the Treasurer…
The undefended flank
For every dollar spent protecting nature, roughly 40 dollars are spent undermining it
Where there is no vision, the people will perish
Watching Australia go down the gurgler at the hands of vision-less bedwetters
Labor refuses to consult Jewish community on divisive bill
Banning Red Union will create a Labor-friendly union monopoly and rob workers of their choice
I can’t believe they haven’t banned Community Notes
Politicians are having their policies and election promises fact-checked by the mob ... it’s not pretty









































