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

There can be no sovereign capability with Net Zero

4 August 2026 4:19 pm

The Albanese government’s fervour for renewable energy and red tape expansion looms large over the otherwise welcome decision to explore…

Internationalism: where no one is privileged, even in their homeland

4 August 2026 4:07 pm

Carl von Clausewitz said that war was politics by other means, one method of advancing your interests among many. In…

The education beneath the education

4 August 2026 3:44 pm

Elaine Ellinger on the formation of the Islamic mind

Vale Rod Liddle

4 August 2026 10:47 am

On the sudden and very sad passing of Rod Liddle, who died aged 66 following a short illness: Rod Liddle…

AI is the new Climate Change

4 August 2026 1:41 am

And it will cost taxpayers a bloody fortune...

The refusal of rescue

3 August 2026 4:16 pm

A love for the island A young girl crests a sandstone ridge above a homestead in Tasmania’s bush and finds…

Immigration and national identity

3 August 2026 2:51 pm

It is entirely legitimate for Australians to consider the potential impact of immigration

Two views on the death of the West

3 August 2026 12:51 pm

And why its people are voluntarily removing themselves from history

Tim Wilson: from oblivion to resurrection – wait, what?!

3 August 2026 10:11 am

Tim Wilson has always been a sort-of ‘third man’ to the Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie’s leadership tussle. As the…

Single point of obsolescence

3 August 2026 12:06 am

Australia could find itself without a credible undersea force

Christopher Nolan says AI is a ‘Trojan horse’

2 August 2026 11:48 pm

While Hollywood races to make movies cheaper with AI, Christopher Nolan remains deeply sceptical of the technology, and younger audiences…

The political kelpie

2 August 2026 11:03 pm

People and ideas that influence politics without holding office

The right will rise from Ceuta

1 August 2026 11:12 pm

Now everyone has seen the true horror of a world without borders

The insensitive ears on Islamic terrorism

1 August 2026 7:27 pm

Why the Western Left keeping erasing the horror in their collective minds

Australia’s inevitable energy dystopia

1 August 2026 5:25 pm

There are two parallel realities competing for supremacy...

Thirty years on, the Coalition have no idea what to do about One Nation

1 August 2026 3:55 pm

It has been almost 30 years since the founding of One Nation, and the Coalition parties still haven’t worked out…

The suit didn’t die. Dignity did…

1 August 2026 3:26 pm

The suit is dying. Not because men suddenly discovered that T-shirts are more comfortable – they always were. Not because…

You need to decolonise your mind

31 July 2026 9:00 am

It’s bin night. Our local council is so broke, we have no green bin collection. They could afford drag queen…

New Premier, same party

31 July 2026 7:42 am

Are Victorians foolish enough to put Labor back in power ... again?

Renewables: it’s worse than you thought

31 July 2026 6:00 am

Australia’s Paris commitment policy is making the world worse, not better

The con at the centre of the Talk Economy

31 July 2026 1:05 am

The whole world is having a yarn. Almost none of it is worth hearing

Polls are not governments

30 July 2026 11:24 pm

If the major parties genuinely believed Pauline Hanson was on the verge of walking into The Lodge, every press conference would be about One Nation

Remarkable disconnect between Western leftist elites and the socialist world

30 July 2026 11:08 pm

There is a remarkable disconnect between the leftist elites in Western economies and those in the nominally socialist world. The…

What are the cons of working from home?

30 July 2026 9:18 pm

One of the things that could be argued that cost Peter Dutton the last election was his stance on working…

How will One Nation ‘shrink’ Australia’s economy?

30 July 2026 7:47 pm

Voters need the full story – lower immigration impacts total GDP, not GDP per person