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

The People vs. Big Australia: Albo’s housing crisis

11 April 2023 7:00 am

Do you recall Labor’s announcement during the 2022 election that it was going to increase immigration to record high levels?…

Restoring trust in public health

11 April 2023 6:00 am

‘Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.’ –…

Australia’s Labor Dark Ages will end in a Liberal victory

11 April 2023 5:00 am

These are dark days for the Liberal Party. Labor governments now dominate the Australian continent while deeply divided Oppositions are…

Science betrayal

11 April 2023 4:00 am

There is no surer proof that people are losing faith in the scientific establishment than the recent Rasmussen poll of Americans…

Has identity politics created a state of madness?

10 April 2023 5:29 pm

‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of…

Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism

10 April 2023 12:23 pm

In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…

Reporting from the Marxist front line

10 April 2023 6:00 am

This Easter, Australian Marxists are conducting their big shindig, Marxism Conference 2023, at Melbourne University. I’m attending. It’s important to understand what…

Pesutto seized his opportunity to fail as a leader

10 April 2023 5:00 am

It’s been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of…

Australians are ready, willing, and able to work – let them!

10 April 2023 4:00 am

Australian families are feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis gripping the nation as inflation, record energy bills, and housing…

Our moral panic over AI

9 April 2023 7:00 am

I was born three years after the first Terminator film was released and didn’t see it until I was around seven.…

No one knows what Albanese’s Voice will look like, or what powers it might have

9 April 2023 5:00 am

It seems, if the polls are to be believed, that the majority of Australians in a majority of states will…

China and Hong Kong: a tale of caution

9 April 2023 4:00 am

Recent instances of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship indicate its global and persistent efforts to block any pipelines of…

The crisis of liberal illiteracy

8 April 2023 6:00 am

Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is in hot water over this unwelcome bit of advice to President Donald…

The half-hearted ‘no’

8 April 2023 5:00 am

In a half-hearted ‘no’ to The Voice, the Australian Liberal Party will support a legislated Voice, not a constitutional addendum. It’s…

Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea

8 April 2023 4:00 am

Every year, there is a green fad that claims it’s going to ‘save the world’ with some kind of renewable…

Pesutto’s war against Moira Deeming is utterly unprincipled

7 April 2023 11:44 am

Flying home from Canberra last week, I finished listening to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, a podcast exploring how a…

The ‘Local Voice’ vs. the ‘Canberra Voice’

7 April 2023 5:00 am

The Liberal Party recently came out against Anthony Albanese’s proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament – under which an advisory body…

Dear Peter … now that you’ve found your Voice

7 April 2023 4:00 am

Peter Dutton and I were good friends once, and worked together closely in the Howard and Rudd years. Sorry to…

The tragic end of Book Depository

6 April 2023 3:00 pm

The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…

The federal Libs must condemn Pesutto for throwing women to the wolves

6 April 2023 12:25 pm

A woman in the Afghan Parliament has been suspended by her political party for the crime of advocating for women’s…

The devolution of Western teaching

6 April 2023 6:00 am

The National Curriculum is broken. So too is the profession of instruction and teaching. Each new Education Minister – be…

Catastrophic: an interview with Peter McCullough and John Leake on the politics of Covid

6 April 2023 5:00 am

Before the United Australia Party’s hotly anticipated Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19 Vaccine Conference in Sydney, Australia, Julie Sladden was invited…

The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Voice

6 April 2023 4:00 am

The three demands of the Uluru Statement, accepted entirely by the Prime Minister, are the Voice, a Makarrata Commission, and…

Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action

5 April 2023 7:40 pm

Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…

Let’s face it, we suck at this

5 April 2023 7:00 am

The ‘left’ – and by this term I mean Labor, Teals, the moderates of the Liberal and National parties, as…