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

Chris Bowen is trying to lock Australia into a Net Zero future

6 August 2026 6:52 pm

The longer Labor is in power, the harder it will be for the Coalition to unpick renewables from the grid

The alibi of skill

5 August 2026 6:05 pm

Spain must answer for what it failed to stop. Canberra must answer for what it decided...

Cheaper electricity?

5 August 2026 5:34 pm

Chris Bowen promises it’s on its way to you soon...

The hidden risks of low-deposit housing under Labor

5 August 2026 1:20 pm

The Albanese government’s housing policies have been sold as the great Australian dream made accessible. Five per cent deposit schemes,…

AI psychosis

5 August 2026 1:06 pm

We all know that the Silicon Valley tech bros are a little detached from reality, but the advent of AI…

Undemocratic? Why shouldn’t Pauline Hanson shun the ABC…

5 August 2026 11:06 am

Somewhere off camera, in the back of Pauline Hanson’s Victorian press conference, a sad little voice belonging to an MSM…

The spirit of Cain

4 August 2026 9:15 pm

I have no interest in whether the ABC was embarrassed, whether it should have pulled the clip...

For art’s sake

4 August 2026 8:45 pm

A case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

There can be no sovereign capability with Net Zero

4 August 2026 4:19 pm

The Albanese government’s fervour for renewable energy and red tape expansion looms large over the otherwise welcome decision to explore…

Internationalism: where no one is privileged, even in their homeland

4 August 2026 4:07 pm

Carl von Clausewitz said that war was politics by other means, one method of advancing your interests among many. In…

The education beneath the education

4 August 2026 3:44 pm

Elaine Ellinger on the formation of the Islamic mind

Vale Rod Liddle

4 August 2026 10:47 am

On the sudden and very sad passing of Rod Liddle, who died aged 66 following a short illness: Rod Liddle…

AI is the new Climate Change

4 August 2026 1:41 am

And it will cost taxpayers a bloody fortune...

The refusal of rescue

3 August 2026 4:16 pm

A love for the island A young girl crests a sandstone ridge above a homestead in Tasmania’s bush and finds…

Immigration and national identity

3 August 2026 2:51 pm

It is entirely legitimate for Australians to consider the potential impact of immigration

Two views on the death of the West

3 August 2026 12:51 pm

And why its people are voluntarily removing themselves from history

Tim Wilson: from oblivion to resurrection – wait, what?!

3 August 2026 10:11 am

Tim Wilson has always been a sort-of ‘third man’ to the Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie’s leadership tussle. As the…

Single point of obsolescence

3 August 2026 12:06 am

Australia could find itself without a credible undersea force

Christopher Nolan says AI is a ‘Trojan horse’

2 August 2026 11:48 pm

While Hollywood races to make movies cheaper with AI, Christopher Nolan remains deeply sceptical of the technology, and younger audiences…

The political kelpie

2 August 2026 11:03 pm

People and ideas that influence politics without holding office

The right will rise from Ceuta

1 August 2026 11:12 pm

Now everyone has seen the true horror of a world without borders

The insensitive ears on Islamic terrorism

1 August 2026 7:27 pm

Why the Western Left keeping erasing the horror in their collective minds

Australia’s inevitable energy dystopia

1 August 2026 5:25 pm

There are two parallel realities competing for supremacy...

Thirty years on, the Coalition have no idea what to do about One Nation

1 August 2026 3:55 pm

It has been almost 30 years since the founding of One Nation, and the Coalition parties still haven’t worked out…

The suit didn’t die. Dignity did…

1 August 2026 3:26 pm

The suit is dying. Not because men suddenly discovered that T-shirts are more comfortable – they always were. Not because…