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

The subtle dangers of postmodern ideology

12 December 2025 11:01 am

Our prison is looking more like Brave New World than 1984

Pauline Hanson’s burqa protest: a stand for free speech and national identity

11 December 2025 8:59 pm

In a dramatic, defiant move, Senator Pauline Hanson entered the Australian Senate Chamber wearing a full black head covering known…

Barnaby Joyce did not leave the Coalition

11 December 2025 2:17 pm

Australia is entering a realignment that the political class still struggles to interpret

Blood and circuses

11 December 2025 1:39 pm

Ideologically, we are in a mess

Men have walked away from fiction

11 December 2025 12:49 am

Men have abandoned modern fiction in droves. Blame video games, movies, or social media if you must. However, the real…

CIS Nanny State Awards for 2025

10 December 2025 9:50 pm

Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual…

A preventable loss of life?

10 December 2025 7:12 pm

Natural disasters are not a morality tale

The middle class is being managed, not supported

10 December 2025 7:01 pm

Walk into any supermarket in Australia and you’ll find the country’s mood on full display. Not in the specials bin…

If Germans won’t fight for Germany, who will?

10 December 2025 10:56 am

Have young German men been brainwashed by Woke?

Countdown started on Anika Wells as she initiates an audit on expenses

9 December 2025 8:20 pm

If Sussan Ley cannot organise the demise of Communications Minister, Anika Wells, we might as well admit the Liberals are…

The Kaviani flag

9 December 2025 4:12 pm

An emblem of Persian cultural solidarity

The civilisational equation no one in Australia wants to face

9 December 2025 9:00 am

Multiculturalism is approaching a tipping point

The teenage economy

9 December 2025 7:35 am

850,000 teenagers participate in the economy

The digital nanny state

8 December 2025 1:30 pm

Can Australia protect kids without stifling creativity?

Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation and will be the lead NSW Senate candidate in 2028

8 December 2025 12:02 pm

It’s official. Former Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce has abandoned his brief stint as an independent and joined One Nation as…

Deterrence and concessions required in Ukraine-Russia peace talks

8 December 2025 11:18 am

As the Ukraine-Russia peace talks continue, what sort of concessions will Kyiv be forced to make? And how can Zelensky…

Lessons from Nuremberg for today’s protests

8 December 2025 12:31 am

The Holocaust trials reveal how ordinary people can be reshaped by ideology – in Australia, Melbourne’s anti-Israel marches offer a…

Comms Minister Anika Wells rejects the premise of liberal democracy

7 December 2025 11:21 pm

From Hamburg: I’m away from the National Press Club for two seconds and I miss out? It’s not quite a…

General anarchy and plunder…

7 December 2025 10:07 pm

Private property ownership is falling at a frightening rate

How to lose friends and control people

7 December 2025 7:55 pm

First they came for the under 16s. Who will be next?

The silent majority will save us

7 December 2025 9:57 am

The righteous were remembered because they were few. The rest were silent. Now history is doing what history does, it’s…

Of course, National Conservatives are conservative

6 December 2025 12:51 pm

Australian Liberals just don’t understand what that means

Australia’s eSafety commissioner and the digital dark ages | Alexander Hatzikalimnios S3 Ep 14

6 December 2025 4:00 am

Banning children Under 16 is only the beginning of Australia’s pioneering digital censorship project. If successful, we will sit somewhere…

Only a United Nations drip could make the Victorian Treaty a joke

5 December 2025 9:19 pm

It is frightening how little is taught in schools about the United Nations. Australians have virtually no idea what role…

Vincent Tarzia: taken down by the SA Voice saga?

5 December 2025 6:58 pm

Whoops! There goes another one… South Australia’s state Liberal leader has stepped down after the rumblings of irreconcilable division set…