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

One Nation’s Gen Z problem

26 June 2026 7:58 pm

Can Pauline Hanson win over the younger voters?

Mr President, take a leaf out of the Desert Storm playbook

26 June 2026 5:10 pm

Iran can be dealt with a Desert-Storm-like alliance

Karl Stefanovic’s departure from Nine points to bigger themes

26 June 2026 1:18 pm

Unshackled and liberated, new media platforms are rising to the top

Where did our privacy go?

26 June 2026 9:52 am

The pervasive nature of technology and social media

Regime change in Iran happens when Pahlavi is in Tehran

25 June 2026 7:49 pm

President Trump claimed several times, particularly during the course of the Iran war in March, that regime change had already…

Welcome to monocultural Australia

25 June 2026 5:16 pm

Thank you, Pauline Hanson, for opening the debate on culture

Nuclear will save us from renewables

25 June 2026 10:09 am

And conservatives should be the ones to lead the energy revolution

Vale, Teena McQueen

24 June 2026 5:37 pm

It is with deep sadness and shock that I learned of the passing away of Teena McQueen, former Vice President…

Who gets to program our reality?

24 June 2026 4:22 pm

Power increasingly means controlling information

ARC: Getting the ideas right

24 June 2026 2:38 pm

Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference, London

The lost conservative tribes

24 June 2026 11:56 am

Has a clear winner emerged in the culture wars?

Why do ideological groups fear the return of monarchy in Iran?

24 June 2026 11:11 am

From the perspective of many Iranian nationalists, the main reason ideological groups oppose monarchy is not merely a political disagreement.…

Can Angus Taylor rekindle the romance?

24 June 2026 10:49 am

Conservatives are in the middle of a marriage breakdown. Half of Coalition voters have left...

No, Tony Abbott is not a Populist

23 June 2026 7:22 pm

He is a blue ribbon Liberal conservative, and that is okay

The global climate confidence game

23 June 2026 4:18 pm

Scepticism is sometimes treated as moral deficiency rather than intellectual curiosity

When public broadcasters pick sides

23 June 2026 11:58 am

SBS and the sex-selective abortion debate

One Nation voters are not who you think they are

23 June 2026 10:26 am

The forgotten people have stopped waiting to be remembered

Cory Bernardi: Poor Angus…

23 June 2026 9:48 am

The last hope of the Liberal Party might not make it to the election

Legacy shopping at the Dollar Store

22 June 2026 8:14 pm

Policy corrections, recalibrations, and reversals: the Albanese government is serving as its own opposition

Consumer-first energy future?

22 June 2026 5:17 pm

What if Australia rejects the renewable energy transition...

Yes, the Nationals can survive

22 June 2026 2:50 pm

Their extinction is not guaranteed just because the Liberals are suffering...

Are we ‘Building a Better Future?’

22 June 2026 9:55 am

Or is the Labor government steering us into the rocks?

The future is out of fashion

22 June 2026 12:56 am

Prosperity already exists. The challenge is deciding how to divide it...

Migration? That’s not Albanese’s problem

22 June 2026 12:43 am

Except it is, and Labor could end up suffering at the election

A New Zealand republic in Jacinda Ardern’s lifetime?

21 June 2026 8:55 pm

New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, believes the nation will become a republic within her lifetime. We have heard…