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

Senate inquiry into climate and energy seeks truth, allegedly

12 September 2025 10:57 am

An attempt by the Greens to silence climate change dissent

Donald Trump: radical Left political violence has hurt too many

11 September 2025 8:18 pm

Donald Trump – a man with two (known) assassination attempts in recent years – has a rare and visceral perspective…

Today we are all Charlie

11 September 2025 7:44 pm

Time has dragged us into a public conversation that feels darker, noisier, and stripped of moral clarity. Rage now travels…

Charlie Kirk: the higher power of conversation

11 September 2025 11:56 am

Charlie Kirk. A force of nature who stood in front of almost every college student in the United States to…

Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk assassinated at 31

11 September 2025 10:04 am

Tributes are flowing in following the horrific assassination of Turning Point founder and CEO Charlie Kirk. Considered a once-in-a-generation talent,…

Sussan Ley dumps Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from Shadow Cabinet

10 September 2025 7:01 pm

Confidence in the leader is a requirement for serving in the Shadow Ministry

Not zero, yes energy

10 September 2025 11:32 am

Reality will eventually yank Labor off the destructive path towards its Net Zero nirvana. This has been said, written, broadcast,…

The most important sentence about Net Zero published this year

10 September 2025 10:03 am

‘Australia faces significant climate-related risks regardless of future emissions reductions.’ This is the most important sentence in a recent report…

Law and the Leviathan: human rights courts and democracy

10 September 2025 7:44 am

In recent years, the clash of two titans has come to the fore. On the one hand is the traditional…

Australia’s education folly

10 September 2025 7:14 am

A bureaucratic shuffle

Parenting for a woke world

9 September 2025 11:03 am

Middle-class and maladjusted

The enduring dominance of Novak Djokovic

9 September 2025 9:43 am

The 145th edition of the United States Tennis Open has now been concluded with Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz winning his sixth…

Respect our sand

9 September 2025 8:36 am

A grain of sand has many stories to tell

Importing a Tasmania’s worth of people every year

9 September 2025 8:06 am

We need a policy of immigration pause

Local government took a stand against antisemitism. Where was everyone else?

8 September 2025 3:55 pm

The 2025 Australian Mayors Summit Against Antisemitism took place this week on the Gold Coast. A fitting location, ironically. In…

The Australian experiment in liberty

8 September 2025 12:35 pm

What are the achievements of the Australian experiment in liberty? They must be clearly articulated in our dangerous world of…

Solutioneering

8 September 2025 10:55 am

The solution no one asked for to a problem that doesn’t exist

Shark nets need to stay

8 September 2025 10:30 am

A poor soul was killed by a shark at Sydney’s Long Reef on Saturday. A local father was out surfing…

Sussan Ley’s criticism of Jacinta Price did her leadership no favours

8 September 2025 6:53 am

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was born with a short political lifespan. I know there are those clinging on, asking for…

Jim Chalmers’ socialist séance might be over

7 September 2025 6:03 pm

‘Eat the Rich!’ isn’t (yet) an acceptable mainstream narrative in Australia … but it is popular amongst Labor’s unofficial coalition…

Lambie, hypocrisy, and the misinformation & disinformation bill

7 September 2025 3:06 pm

There is an old Q&A segment being resurrected on X between Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Jacqui Lambie where they debate the…

Net Zero debate has forgotten families, small business, and the environment

6 September 2025 12:25 pm

Climate policy without social licence, and without integrity, cannot last

Gaza’s squandered opportunities

6 September 2025 12:00 pm

In 2005 the people of Gaza had a great opportunity for a new future filled with hope and potential. Israel,…

Diversity and potholes

6 September 2025 11:45 am

Tedious inclusivity and relentless virtue signalling

Political censorship makes it impossible to defend women’s rights | Katherine Deves. S3 Ep 08

6 September 2025 4:00 am

When it comes to biological women’s rights – there’s not a lot of enthusiasm for truth, facts, or freedom inside…