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

Shark numbers on the rise

29 January 2026 8:00 pm

It’s time to breathe new life into our decimated commercial shark fishery

I’m sorry, Prime Minister

29 January 2026 1:51 pm

On Australia Day, I found myself reflecting on the Prime Minister’s memorial service speech at the Sydney Opera House. And…

Why Western silence will burn Iran (and the world)

29 January 2026 11:57 am

The year 2026 has marked a grim milestone in Iranian history. The recent report by The Times, estimating a staggering…

Hate speech laws under suspicion for two-tier policing

28 January 2026 11:12 pm

It has been a week since Labor’s rushed hate speech bill was chaperoned into law by the Liberals and already…

Jim Chalmers has cursed our economy

28 January 2026 7:28 pm

Annual inflation climbs to 3.8 per cent (ABS)

Defending Australia’s eastern flank … from itself

28 January 2026 12:57 pm

Policy weaknesses in the Southwest Pacific

Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups

28 January 2026 10:40 am

The evidence of disadvantage in Indigenous communities throughout the world is overwhelming. There ought to be funding for programs designed…

Mass migration drives South Australia’s housing crisis

28 January 2026 3:00 am

Is this Malinauskas’ Achilles’ heel?

When immigration worked for the nation, not the United Nations

28 January 2026 12:57 am

They marched in their tens of thousands, a river of discontent flowing through the heart of Australia’s cities on its…

Are the Nationals an equal Coalition partner?

27 January 2026 11:46 pm

Give it a couple of weeks, or more precisely, a couple of pay cycles, and the National Party will be…

Sepehr… Baba… Where are you?

27 January 2026 11:35 pm

The Iranian government is murdering children

One Nation on the rise

27 January 2026 6:41 pm

Albanese slips into incompetence

Tony Burke cancels Israeli speaker’s visa

27 January 2026 3:48 pm

What about the radical preachers?

I’m not looking at the door

27 January 2026 12:26 pm

Ley’s looking at the beautiful landscape

Dealing with Trump

27 January 2026 1:32 am

‘So they debated, willing things to be as they had always been, unwilling to know that events are made by…

The rapid death of free speech

27 January 2026 1:01 am

There’s no doubt John Stuart Mill regards free speech as an essential characteristic of any liberal, democratic society. Mill argues,…

Why Labor polices speech, not the terror watchlist

26 January 2026 7:19 pm

Anthony Albanese’s post-Bondi hate speech bill, rammed through Parliament in chaotic January 2026 sessions, epitomises everything wrong with the Western…

The spirit of this great land

26 January 2026 9:07 am

Wishing everyone a Happy Australia Day!

Back to 2014: For Syria, a new ISIS genocide is here

26 January 2026 12:37 am

For friends and allies of the Kurdish people, their worst fears are being manifested. Kurdish, Christian, and Yazidi communities are…

Freedom of technology

24 January 2026 1:26 pm

This is how revolutions are won

Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs

24 January 2026 10:25 am

The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems, but who is going to…

What would Menzies do?

24 January 2026 8:47 am

Switching parties as a way to rebuild conservatism

The emperor has no clothes: Australia’s energy reality check

23 January 2026 10:00 pm

Renewables have become a progressive identity. Nuclear has been coded as conservative.

The NatCons do not tolerate antisemitism

23 January 2026 1:48 pm

I see my old sparring partner Louise Clegg has begun the new year where she left off in 2025 with…

Women-only pre-selections and gender quotas

23 January 2026 2:39 am

Proof the Liberals have no idea what conservative voters want