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

A global bond crisis brews

3 September 2025 7:59 pm

Rising yields are stretching indebted governments

We do not begin anew

3 September 2025 6:14 pm

Climate orthodoxy does not tolerate dissent

Ed Husic’s greatest hits

3 September 2025 3:23 pm

Labor’s discordant tune on Israel

Are you not entertained?

3 September 2025 9:40 am

MSM doesn’t show our most successful and talented entertainers enough respect

Bush backlash: Net Zero not welcome

3 September 2025 7:22 am

There are few joys left in political life for a blue ribbon conservative, but watching the Prime Minister chased out…

That’s a load of bull, Albo!

2 September 2025 2:13 pm

The news broke on October 13, 2022, that Australia planned to sign up to then-President Joe Biden’s pledge to reduce…

King Albo of Multicultural Australia

2 September 2025 12:04 pm

Australia deserves better. Middle Australians demand it

Senator Malcolm Roberts triggers outrage from the Greens over mass migration

2 September 2025 9:47 am

There were wild scenes in the Senate yesterday evening after One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts called for an inquiry into…

Hope amongst the violence

1 September 2025 5:44 pm

We need to rethink remote Indigenous communities

Fluoridated water: a political and cultural debate

1 September 2025 5:30 pm

Of all the chemical additives commonly found in the human diet – Fluoride is currently one of the most polarising,…

AI cheating and the decline of our universities

1 September 2025 12:17 pm

As a current Senator, and as someone who worked in university administration for more than two decades, I have witnessed…

Irrelevance marks Canberra and our national government

1 September 2025 11:00 am

‘Never was so much done for so little apparent result,’ aptly describes Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles’ recent lightning visit…

Australia’s historic decision

31 August 2025 10:17 pm

And the Normandy path of Iranians

Words matter

31 August 2025 10:10 pm

All roads lead to higher taxes

Not far-right, just fed-up!

31 August 2025 10:52 am

Why Australians want to march with their flag

Labor’s socialist bedroom tax

30 August 2025 8:52 am

Punished for prosperity, persecuted for productivity

A letter to antiquity

30 August 2025 8:39 am

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire

Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress

30 August 2025 8:28 am

Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray.…

Who will defend a nation of renters?

30 August 2025 8:19 am

Economic arguments miss the cultural significance of home ownership

Drop dead

29 August 2025 12:00 pm

Species turnover not mass extinction

Production begets productivity

29 August 2025 11:35 am

As we watch with increasing annoyance and incredulity the befuddled and wasteful actions of the present government as they seek…

Labor’s union monopoly sits at the heart of the culture wars | Edward Schuller. S3 Ep 07

29 August 2025 4:00 am

Having the freedom to belong to a non-political union – aka a union that does not fund the Labor Party…

A realist perspective on Crown Reza Pahlavi’s return

28 August 2025 4:32 pm

Political developments within countries cannot be analysed in isolation from the international context. The return of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi…

Antisemitism of the Left explained

27 August 2025 1:11 pm

Why, since October 7, 2023, have many in the West celebrated Hamas’ invasion of southern Israeli communities and the unspeakable…

An open letter to the Prime Minister on his failure

27 August 2025 10:25 am

Dear Prime Minister, Contained within your election acceptance speech on May 21, 2022, was the following statement/pledge: ‘I want to…