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

Howz that?

24 January 2024 2:00 am

If the great Australian dream dies, all the smoking ceremonies in the world will not pull us out of an impending spiritual doom

Creepy e-bike graveyards

24 January 2024 2:00 am

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of e-bikes were photographed piling up in what has been unofficially dubbed, ‘China’s e-bike graveyard’. It…

Will the real Australia Day please stand up?

23 January 2024 3:30 am

Australia Day is celebrated as the official national day and is marked by national celebrations, community and family events, and…

Cost of living crisis? You get what you vote for

23 January 2024 3:00 am

If the value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it, who is left in…

A choice between two Aboriginal schools or Victorian treaty: it’s a no-brainer

23 January 2024 2:30 am

The recent failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum has given conservative voters in Victoria some glimmer of hope that…

When gold’s real price breaks out

22 January 2024 2:30 am

As the Austrian School economists know, inflation distorts price signals unevenly. It may be tempting to try to filter out…

Feeding the fetish: an unintentional exposé

22 January 2024 2:05 am

Since entering into the world of feminist politics, I have tried to avoid, as much as possible, taking a deep…

The painful legacy of anti-nuclear campaigns on clean energy progress

22 January 2024 2:00 am

On May 7, 1966, Martin Litton, a member of the Sierra Club’s board of directors, cast a fateful vote against…

What happened to Labor’s two big election promises?

21 January 2024 2:00 am

The two most notable Labor promises before the May 2022 election involved ‘getting wages moving again’ and the promise to…

Javier Milei: The Western world is in danger!

21 January 2024 12:42 am

Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Meeting 2024. Today I am here to tell you…

Open letter to the Minister for Immigration

20 January 2024 2:21 pm

1 in 36 people in Australia today arrived last year. This is the largest migration intake in Australian history

Jordan Peterson: ‘You have won the battle, minions of the deep state – but not the war’

20 January 2024 11:59 am

Jordan Peterson upsets academia. Their determination to ‘shut him up’ has little to do with arguments about free speech and…

Alarm bells ringing on the waterfront (again)

20 January 2024 1:36 am

In the throes of a four-month waterfront dispute featuring the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) and Emirati global logistics…

Iran is at the centre of Middle East crisis

20 January 2024 1:20 am

2024 commences with the worrying spectre of Iran-backed groups including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and…

Batsh*t crazy mice

19 January 2024 2:18 pm

We’re hearing that China is back in the lab, with scientists experimenting on a Covid strain (GX_P2V) that has returned a…

A nation divided

19 January 2024 3:31 am

As the nation ushers in a new year following the decisive defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament at the…

Dare not speak its name

18 January 2024 11:30 pm

According to recent polling around the consequential caucuses just held, some 80 per cent of Iowa Republicans believe Joe Biden’s…

Woolworths doubles down

18 January 2024 9:36 pm

Corporations these days do much to engender the absence of any respect of their customers. And they do not care.…

Mediocranny – the legacy of DEI

18 January 2024 3:00 am

There are so many lessons to be learned from the case of ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay. Perhaps the crux of…

Political cowardice is putting our country at risk

18 January 2024 2:48 am

On the eve of Australia Day, and when Australians are doing it tough, the Prime Minister has betrayed our nation

Foreign policy gaffes

18 January 2024 2:20 am

I might have been wrong… This was the thought that rushed through my mind while listening to Prof. John Mearsheimer. He…

The war on drugs is a shambles

18 January 2024 2:00 am

The introduction of new legislation in the ACT means those found in possession of minor amounts of illegal drugs will…

The question of identity

17 January 2024 4:00 am

One of the key reasons Australia voted 60/40 against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is because it was divisive. Instead…

Loophole Bill makes Pocock and Lambie the most powerful players in Parliament

17 January 2024 3:00 am

‘Blindsided’ is the best word for it. On December 7 last year in the Senate, two independents – Senator David…

Labor are the masters of their own demise

17 January 2024 2:00 am

Labor’s energy policy has recast Labor from the ‘catch-all’ party of Keating to the ‘upset-all’ party of Albanese