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

Veterans deserve better

16 September 2026 2:14 pm

Labor’s $5,000-a-year cap on veterans’ allied-health services

We have not forgotten

16 September 2026 12:16 pm

Reminding voters about the Liberal Party’s betrayal on censorship is not a good strategy

Please never explain

16 September 2026 10:14 am

Pauline Hanson should take advice from the late Queen Elizabeth II ... never complain, never explain

AOC and the parasocial nature of politics

16 September 2026 10:05 am

The loyalty people feel to their political tribe has been particularly intense in recent years

Restoring choice for stay-at-home parents

15 September 2026 8:39 pm

Government tax policy shouldn’t stop parents from raising their kids

Vale Jim Frecklington – an Australian craftsman for the ages

15 September 2026 4:03 pm

Australia has lost one of its most extraordinary and most artistic craftsmen. Jim Frecklington, royal coachmaker, horseman, artist, and patriot,…

Another attempt at internet censorship

15 September 2026 3:44 pm

The government will never stop trying to silence social media

One Nation stands against extremism on both sides

14 September 2026 2:51 pm

If you love Australia, walk away from radicalisation...

One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit?

14 September 2026 2:00 pm

The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the Coalition’s polling, its own documented…

Beggars beware! The government is here to ‘help’

14 September 2026 8:57 am

The Victorian government is proposing to decriminalise begging as an offence, but is this benevolence or perhaps something else more…

Establishment attacks! Pauline explodes leftie brains

14 September 2026 4:53 am

Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of…

Woke, broke, ridiculed Victoria

14 September 2026 12:27 am

No other words better describe the State of Victoria as it limps toward the November election

The Chalmers diet

14 September 2026 12:11 am

The working and middle classes are hungry, thin, and ready for a change in government

­Throwing the first stone

12 September 2026 9:02 pm

The war against Warren Pickering is getting messy

Politicians discover men

12 September 2026 5:33 pm

New spokesmen are popping up everywhere

Superannuation needs a new public debate

11 September 2026 2:26 pm

Superannuation has fallen short of fulfilling its promise to reduce the need for old-age pensions

Has the curriculum been feminised?

11 September 2026 2:26 pm

The leader of the National Party, Matt Canavan, argues one of the reasons boys are attracted to toxic material on…

The cheque from Berlin

11 September 2026 2:14 pm

Germany wants to help pay for Britain’s nuclear weapons. Pause on that for a moment...

A digital duty of care: taking failure to its illogical conclusion?

11 September 2026 11:31 am

The Albanese Labor government has announced that a digital duty of care will be imposed on social media companies to…

Defend sacred ground

10 September 2026 11:13 am

What is being proposed for the War Memorial is not history but propaganda

Grievance: the insurgency with 50 years to run

9 September 2026 4:33 pm

Samuel Thawley found the pools. The demography shows their source...

Bicycle helmets and the bubble-wrapping of Australia

9 September 2026 3:33 pm

Has the endless pursuit of the unattainable goal of ‘zero harm’ has made Australia better

From Athens to Albo: free speech and history

9 September 2026 2:49 pm

Are we entering the age of rule-by-the-opinion-of-the-eSafety-Commissioner?

Nepal and the scam of climate reparations

9 September 2026 2:39 pm

The Marxist narrative of social justice and reparations has embedded itself in environmentalism, intent on using nature as geopolitical weapon

The wrong man answered

8 September 2026 5:42 pm

If Andrew Tate were the problem, his disappearance would be the solution...