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

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30 April 2025 12:29 pm

Handouts and education failure are undermining democracy...

The con in conclave?

30 April 2025 12:18 pm

And other heavenly satire

The AI elephant in the Australian tally room

29 April 2025 6:00 pm

Sometimes disruption is not evolution – it’s extinction

Albo’s Mediscare has gone nuclear

29 April 2025 5:37 pm

Anthony Albanese is desperate to hold on to power. He revels in being an underestimated political underdog. Behind the scenes,…

What’s wrong with this election?

29 April 2025 11:37 am

I understand it’s a cost-of-living crisis, but I sacrificed one of my coffees and bought the Sunday Telegraph (don’t tell…

A tale of two island nations

28 April 2025 3:10 pm

An old Pastor told me decades ago, ‘People should focus on what they do have, not what they don’t have.’…

Labor’s litany of lies

28 April 2025 1:57 pm

With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal Election, Australia’s future may well depend on how…

Why the Coalition will lose

28 April 2025 10:06 am

While I’m not a prophet – or the son of a prophet – I’m going to make a political prediction…

Give Nashos another run

28 April 2025 9:56 am

In July 1972 I turned 21 and became eligible to cast a ballot at the next federal election. I had…

Dutton should not fear Trump

28 April 2025 7:49 am

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton wounded the feelings of MSM by referring to them collectively as ‘hate media’. ‘I have no…

The Sun should take out a restraining order

27 April 2025 9:12 am

Western governments are spending trillions of dollars covering the world in solar panels. Now they want to dim the Sun.…

Will the real Dutton please stand up? (feat. Albo’s Morons)

26 April 2025 11:42 pm

Peter Dutton needs to take some inspiration from American rapper, Eminem. Eminem doesn’t give a toss what people think of…

Do not believe the polls

26 April 2025 10:51 pm

Why have we not learnt this lesson? Has everyone forgotten the 2019 election? Or the Trump election? Or the Voice…

Law schools as a tool of social engineering

26 April 2025 3:00 pm

Janet Albrechtsen has written an informative and powerful piece on the infiltration of Indigenous ideology in Australia’s law schools. She…

Time to honour our Anzacs and ramp up defence spending

26 April 2025 8:11 am

Australia has a habit of being caught with its pants down when it comes to defence spending. In 1938, Australia’s…

Drink and despair

26 April 2025 7:33 am

Our esteemed editor invited me to lunch a while ago. After three hours I had to leave because Qantas doesn’t…

Veterans: Australia’s most devalued and forgotten

25 April 2025 9:07 pm

In Australia, we do a damn poor job of looking after our veterans. This Anzac Day, can we just admit…

Anzac memories

25 April 2025 9:49 am

War and peace and history

A thousand men are marching by

25 April 2025 12:11 am

A thousand men are marching by A glassy stare in every eye As we pass the sky grows red We…

Why Trump’s withdrawal benefits Ukraine

24 April 2025 11:14 pm

While counter-intuitive, the withdrawal by President Donald Trump of the United States from peace negotiations – and even from materially…

The real reason the Coalition will lose the election

24 April 2025 5:59 pm

‘Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.’ It’s the kind of quote that makes your eyes roll – insipid, overused, and…

Albo wants to tax ‘future you’

24 April 2025 5:20 pm

If you want to get ahead in Australia, it will never happen under a Labor-Greens government. Albo and Adam are…

Chemotherapy’s debilitating side-effects: drug companies must eliminate them

24 April 2025 12:48 pm

…remembering my youngest brother Giles

The major parties have given up on Australians having children

24 April 2025 11:59 am

Australia is facing a civilisational moment on the eve of the next federal election. The reason is simple: we are…

The death throes of the fanatical Left

24 April 2025 12:19 am

The French Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot wrote in an essay that ‘from fanaticism to barbarism is only one step’. The…