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

ISIS Brides and the ghosts of Raqqa

13 October 2025 3:34 pm

Safety demands vigilance

Chris Bowen is in denial about renewable energy

13 October 2025 1:57 pm

Australia will lose critical industries as coal-fired plants shut down

Why are they still protesting for Gaza?

13 October 2025 10:19 am

Trump brought peace, and the activists are furious

Think before you post

12 October 2025 11:26 pm

Keir Starmer’s digital state of silence

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: Australia has not ‘moved left’

12 October 2025 9:32 am

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has responded to Paul Kelly’s recent article in The Australian where he asserts that Australia has moved to…

No, Albanese and Wong did not bring peace

11 October 2025 7:06 pm

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is copping flak today for what some of her peers are calling an attempt to ‘claim…

Time for a rethink of car manufacturing in Australia

11 October 2025 2:51 pm

Andrew Hastie is right, we should build things again

The Labor Party are genius campaigners

11 October 2025 1:01 pm

And the Liberal Party must learn from them

The net zero myth

11 October 2025 12:46 pm

The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all talking about Net Zero. This condition exists when all the…

Australia solved civilisation’s problems

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11 October 2025 12:45 am

Balanced parliamentary debate was the vision of the first elected head of government in Australia, James Hurtle Fisher, Mayor of…

Is Palestine a legal state?

10 October 2025 8:42 pm

Reflections on the dilemmas of statehood in the 21st Century

Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

10 October 2025 8:07 pm

‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone…

Charlie Kirk and the rise of the new Jacobins

10 October 2025 7:41 pm

Back to the guillotine, the mob, and the terror

How Australia’s green rush lost its way

10 October 2025 3:49 pm

When conservationist Steven Nowakowski quietly began mapping Australia’s renewable energy developments four years ago, few imagined the scale of what he…

Bananas, bureaucrats, and Albanese’s social media ban

9 October 2025 10:11 pm

To determine how bad Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s social media ban is, look at who is applauding it… At the…

AI and the future of the Australian legal system

9 October 2025 9:51 pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been ‘the buzzword’ since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. Amongst concerns raised with the…

After two millennia of exile, Jews are done asking permission

9 October 2025 9:03 pm

Israel and its Jews will not be bullied into silence

The terrifying theft of knowledge

9 October 2025 8:54 pm

Reading and critical thinking: vanishing skills?

Dave Rubin comes to Australia on his ‘Don’t Burn This World’ tour | Dave Rubin. S3 Ep 10

9 October 2025 4:00 am

Why did Australia manufacture a mass migration crisis for no reason? Charlie Kirk and George Floyd represent the ‘two America’s’.…

France’s dénouement

8 October 2025 3:59 pm

A crisis over public finances appears inevitable

On the Gaza front line, I find the famine is a blatant lie

8 October 2025 2:37 pm

Of the many shortcomings of this government, a casual indifference to the terrifying rise of antisemitism in this country is…

Male offenders do not belong in women‘s prisons

8 October 2025 12:44 pm

Last week, I told you of the magical powers that allowed me to predict the arrest of a woman four…

Political temperatures are rising

8 October 2025 12:34 pm

And Albanese keeps dragging Australia to the Left

The Church of England’s ‘turning point’ to irrelevancy

7 October 2025 8:38 pm

The Church of England has committed a huge mistake in appointing Sarah Mullally to be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury.…

Australian Jews feel betrayed

7 October 2025 1:54 pm

Today is the two-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks. It is utterly horrific that two years after the…