In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Sean Bell: we are not here to apologise for Australia, we are here to defend it
The following is an excerpt from Senator Sean Bell’s maiden speech. I entered the Senate by way of a casual…
Will Albo’s crocodile diplomacy discourage China’s flotillas?
From Hamburg: As China’s latest flotilla sails closer, Australians are entitled to ask their Prime Minister whose side he is…
eSafety Commissioner sets her gaze on electric vehicles
Just when you thought range anxiety, sabotaged charging stations, and distance-based road taxes were all you had to worry about…
Hope for Syria: Iraqi Kurdistan’s president advocates for Syria
The international community – particularly leaders in the Middle East – are eager to see the developments and consequences of…
Albanese and the language of coercive conviction
The referendum revealed a troubling pattern in the Prime Minister’s language. Whenever Anthony Albanese speaks from genuine conviction, his words…
Parliamentary Question Time – the Cirque du Soleil Australia needs
It was Parliament House 1992 and Prime Minister Keating was asked by then Opposition Leader John Hewson why he refused…
Senate recommends delaying the ‘Social Media Ban’
The ‘social media ban’ that is scheduled to commence on December 10, 2025, has recently come under scrutiny due to…
Australia braces for the Fergie Files
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is very obviously SATIRE. Australia has weathered many royal curiosities: monarchs who won’t visit, Governors-General who…
Slow down Minister, AI roadblock on Route 666 ahead
EVs and AI are set to compete for our dwindling Net Zero energy supply
If this is Germany’s post-colonial democracy, bring back Bismarck
From Hamburg. The only way to cleanse post-colonial guilt is for every person, including immigrants, to give an extensive portion…
A cabinet of ideological tourists who despise our civilisation
Australia now runs two governments. One elected, one real...
The AI-human pairing needed to grow Australia’s prosperity
Blended workforces and a lighter regulatory touch
Chris Bowen: president of negotiating our decline
It has been recently reported that Chris Bowen, the Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister in the Albanese Cabinet, will…
Pauline Hanson proves we have a two-tier senate
How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black…
The trans myth
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament…
Protecting victims of explicit AI content online
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’. The Bill is…
The story of a nation in flames
The wildfires in northern and northwestern Iran have become headline news around the world. All eyes are fixed on the…
Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench
New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…
