In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
We are more than a blue square
The Super Bowl ad, antisemitism and why the word Zionist still matters
Please explain… the polls
Recent polling has come as a great shock to those who have not been paying attention, and who are out…
One Nation rises as the broad church collapses
I’m the President of One Nation South Australia, and I was genuinely pleased when Cory Bernardi agreed to join our…
Did we learn anything from the first global warming debate?
One of the enduring and acrimonious controversies in Australian politics concerns the disagreements between those who believe obstinately in the…
Labor is wrecking our Defence heritage … for money
It’s Australia’s version of the Chagos Island deal
Angus Taylor: the last king?
It was presumed, from the eternal silence of the party room, that someone talked Angus Taylor off his horse while…
Neither the leaders we deserve nor the ones we need
This past weekend I was watching The Dark Knight (2008). Not my favourite franchise, but critically acclaimed. One thing that stood…
Tony Abbott’s most hated budget was his greatest act of love
Politics punishes truth-tellers who arrive before the pain is obvious. In 2014, Tony Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey delivered…
A political earthquake is rumbling beneath our feet
Anyone who rules out the possibility of a seismic change in the political scene in Australia is not paying attention.…
Albanese ignores Australia’s natural gifts
Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have… This was a message a visiting pastor pressed home to…
Welcome to the Pornocracy
A society in which political power, culture, relationships, and identity are shaped and dominated by the purveyors of pornography
The digital viceroys: India’s techno-feudal trap
The rising backlash in the United States over H-1B visas is not merely a dispute over jobs or immigration. It…
The Liberals can be saved … by you
The structural failure of the Liberal Party, which is the reason we set up the Liberal Reform Association, has sadly…
Who do you trust with Energy, Chris Bowen or Malcolm Roberts?
With One Nation in ascendance, comparisons have been inevitable between Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley, and Pauline Hanson in a way…
Australia’s bigger, better idea
William Wentworth said: ‘Every man that is honest and industrious can sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree.’…
Scott Morrison almost got it right
If you want to know why the Australian Liberal Party is where it is read Scott Morrison’s piece on fundamentalist…
Editor’s picks
Magazine
How Tickle v. Giggle happened
One man’s discrimination is another girl’s protection
Too many devil-worshippers in the Liberals’ broad church
Thanks to Labor’s deception, One Nation’s rise is here to stay
