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

Artificial intelligence: the next extinction?

18 July 2023 5:00 am

With technology developing ever faster, a new threat is looming in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) potentially interacting adversely…

Has world war three already begun?

18 July 2023 4:30 am

‘War, Boom, Bust’ is often heard in the context of economic cycles in history. A war is needed to get…

Dangerous detail: how the Voice will select its 24 members

18 July 2023 4:00 am

Australians have been told that if we want to understand the Voice proposal we should read the 272-page Final Report…

NATO’s broomstick army

17 July 2023 5:30 am

In the good old days when you typed into Google, French military victories and pressed the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button, the response…

Presumption of evil not innocence

17 July 2023 5:00 am

How can it be that a man of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 28 nasty sexual…

Let them eat Macarons 

17 July 2023 4:30 am

Fireworks were banned on Bastille Day. Justice has been updated by the French Senate’s new bill which has approved Big…

Gambling with Australian lives

17 July 2023 4:00 am

At the beginning of the Covid vaccination rollout in Australia on 21 February 2021, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared…

Double Shot Ep11: David Adler on why the Jewish people should vote no

14 July 2023 1:11 pm

Guest host Rebecca Weisser speaks with special guest David Adler about why the Jewish community should vote ‘no’ to the…

Chris Bowen, renewable fundamentalist

14 July 2023 5:30 am

You don't need physics when you have faith

Protecting children takes courage

14 July 2023 5:00 am

Just ask Dr Jillian Spencer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist

India’s Voice warns against affirmative action

14 July 2023 4:30 am

Caste and disadvantage are still deeply entrenched

Could Japanese interest rates trigger a global financial crisis?

13 July 2023 5:30 am

Ask Iceland.

Affirmative action is racism

13 July 2023 5:00 am

Asian American students win a victory against the woke left

How to fix our schools

13 July 2023 4:30 am

A new report identifies what needs to be cut

Trailercore is universally loathed

13 July 2023 4:00 am

But what is it?

What’s unfair about the Voice referendum?

12 July 2023 5:30 am

Not funding the 'No' case

Would Jesus vote ‘Yes’?

12 July 2023 5:00 am

And what would the Good Samaritan do?

Did anyone vote for a Voice for Cate Blanchett to parliament?

12 July 2023 4:30 am

Hollywood has a message no-voting neanderthals - evolve deplorables!

Should Australia and Ukraine should join NATO?

12 July 2023 4:00 am

The UN is powerless to prevent war

All aboard Dan’s woke trams

11 July 2023 6:00 am

If you need proof of the politicisation of everyday life, look no further than Melbourne’s public transport. Political propaganda parading…

Clothing the gap

11 July 2023 5:30 am

An oft repeated argument for voting No to an Indigenous Voice is that it would be just the latest in…

Labor channels China on censorship

11 July 2023 5:00 am

The Government is attempting to introduce censorship laws. It doesn’t just want to chip away at your right to speak,…

Memorial Service For Jeremy Clarke

11 July 2023 4:45 am

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Long march of the Marxists

11 July 2023 4:00 am

Instead of 'I think therefore I am', the credo is ‘I feel therefore I’m right’

Why do young Liberals appease the green blob?

10 July 2023 5:30 am

Net Zero emission policies guarantee net zero Liberal governments