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

ABC: too much Queen, not enough LGBTQ?

14 September 2022 4:15 pm

Darling of the ABC and former Insiders host Barrie Cassidy cannot understand why the national broadcaster is devoting so much…

Perrottet: just the annex!

14 September 2022 3:48 pm

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

14 September 2022 12:00 pm

With Tracy Grimshaw’s retirement from A Current Affair, Australians might speculate on who will replace the hard-hitting woman responsible for exposing…

1,000 Australian schools are fed insects

14 September 2022 11:30 am

Are you keen to chow down on micro livestock?

The devotion of Elizabeth II

14 September 2022 10:00 am

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

14 September 2022 8:00 am

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

14 September 2022 4:00 am

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

13 September 2022 2:18 pm

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!

13 September 2022 1:00 pm

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

13 September 2022 10:00 am

How activists and academics justify hateful speech as an ‘act of postcolonial resistance’

Has your eco-anxiety got the better of you?

13 September 2022 8:00 am

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?

13 September 2022 4:00 am

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

12 September 2022 1:00 pm

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

12 September 2022 12:00 pm

The bigger the super pot, the more vulnerable it is to tax raids

‘Bubonic plague’ preferable to union rule

12 September 2022 8:00 am

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

12 September 2022 7:00 am

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

12 September 2022 4:00 am

On the morning of the announcement of the death of the much-loved and widely admired Queen Elizabeth II, Greens Deputy…

Affirmation – or else!

11 September 2022 8:00 am

Jailing teachers over pronouns seems a little extreme

‘Voice’ to radically reshape government

11 September 2022 4:00 am

Under-developed ‘Voice’ proposal a recipe for lawfare and division

A little fun while Trooping the Colour

10 September 2022 12:11 pm

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

10 September 2022 10:47 am

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

10 September 2022 9:24 am

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

9 September 2022 2:23 pm

‘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

9 September 2022 1:02 pm

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

9 September 2022 9:00 am

You have a penchant for Tolstoy, but never got around to reading War and Peace. Now you can devour this…