In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
ABC: too much Queen, not enough LGBTQ?
Darling of the ABC and former Insiders host Barrie Cassidy cannot understand why the national broadcaster is devoting so much…
Perrottet: just the annex!
The NSW Premier’s PR team might want to be a little more careful allowing Perrottet to loiter around historic buildings…
ACA after Tracy Grimshaw
With Tracy Grimshaw’s retirement from A Current Affair, Australians might speculate on who will replace the hard-hitting woman responsible for exposing…
The devotion of Elizabeth II
The death of Queen Elizabeth II is one of those special historical moments of near-universal feeling: a common, transcendent moment…
Our ‘matter-of-fact’ Queen in life and in death
The public outpouring of emotion and deep sorrow being expressed around the world following the death of Queen Elizabeth II…
The sharp decline since Paris
Returning from the 2015 Paris Agreement, former Clinton Energy chief Joe Romm, proclaimed: ‘You know, change happens slowly, until it happens…
Activists misplace their anger
By now, we have all heard that university professor Uju Anya did not like Queen Elizabeth II and regarded her…
Good news out of Canada!
I’m a native-born Canadian. When it comes to politics I virtually never say, ‘Look at the good news coming out…
Social Justice and the end of civility
How activists and academics justify hateful speech as an ‘act of postcolonial resistance’
Has your eco-anxiety got the better of you?
Are you suffering from a bout of eco-anxiety? Do you feel angry and infuriated about the lack of Climate Change…
Has Faruqi forgotten Islam’s colonising history?
In the first televised Christmas Broadcast in 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth II said something remarkably prescient and poignant: ‘The trouble is…
The Queen: symbolic and mythical
The Queen has died after a reign longer than any other. Many people have found themselves touched by her death,…
The next tax raid in the super wars
The bigger the super pot, the more vulnerable it is to tax raids
‘Bubonic plague’ preferable to union rule
The Christmas and New Year family feasts were still ambling their way through my digestive system when I noted (from…
Jordan Peterson defends the Commonwealth
We have heard plenty from our morally-rotten politicians, journalists who have no idea what a constitutional monarchy is, and hateful…
Senator Faruqi, heal thyself
On the morning of the announcement of the death of the much-loved and widely admired Queen Elizabeth II, Greens Deputy…
‘Voice’ to radically reshape government
Under-developed ‘Voice’ proposal a recipe for lawfare and division
A little fun while Trooping the Colour
For every ADF recruit, there was a precise moment when they ceased to be a civilian and became a member…
Elizabeth II: the greatest of monarchs
The Queen is dead. Long live the King. These are the words that must be uttered upon the death of…
Today is a significant anniversary
Saturday September 10 marks the anniversary of the banning of prescription of Ivermectin for Covid by our Therapeutic Good Administration…
The good and faithful servant Queen
‘Her Majesty The Queen’. With two male monarchs lined up to follow King Charles III, these four words are unlikely…
Christmas without the Queen will never be the same
For most of my life, I’ve tuned in to the Queen’s Christmas message. Her observations on the year gone would…
16 reasons why you need to buy an electric car
You have a penchant for Tolstoy, but never got around to reading War and Peace. Now you can devour this…