Boris vs Corbyn: the key seats to watch on election night

10 December 2019 9:04 pm

Will Boris Johnson return to Downing Street on Friday? Or will it be prime minister Jeremy Corbyn? There are now only…

Domestic violence is too serious an issue to be used by bigots bashing Christianity

10 December 2019 5:30 pm

In an article in The Conversation yesterday, Vicki Lowik (a PhD candidate at Central Queensland University) and Annabel Taylor (an associate…

Malcolm Turnbull: The Ghost Who Talks

10 December 2019 1:01 pm

I believe in ghosts.    Most Sri Lankan-born men, women or children generally believe in the misty world of ghosts, spirits…

Sturm und Drang at the impeachment hearings

10 December 2019 10:58 am

Is it time to bag impeachment? That may have been the subliminal signal that GOP counsel Steve Castor was trying…

Could this be the defining moment of the election campaign?

10 December 2019 5:50 am

An interview earlier today with my colleague Joe Pike captures the contradiction at the heart of Boris Johnson’s campaign. He…

Why you’re probably paying more than 50 per cent of your income in tax

10 December 2019 5:00 am

The government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly…

Where did the money come from for Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine operations?

10 December 2019 3:35 am

Donald Trump is about to become only the third US president to be impeached —or charged with a crime —…

The three things that would have to happen to block a Tory majority

9 December 2019 11:38 pm

In 72 hours time, voting will be well underway. We will be talking about turnout being ‘brisk’. Right now, the…

How the Conservative strategy is faring across the country

9 December 2019 11:18 pm

It’s the week of the election and Boris Johnson is to spend the final days of the campaign visiting every…

Why I’m still convinced Boris will win a majority

9 December 2019 10:31 pm

Everyone seems agreed. Although the numbers may not have moved much, this election is still wide open. So anyone who…

Gender-neutral toilets don’t help our kids, but threaten them

9 December 2019 7:16 pm

Here is a truth you can bank on: the sexual revolutionaries never eat nor sleep, but are ever on the…

Want proper bushfire prevention policy? Draft the Greens into the RFS

9 December 2019 3:33 pm

No one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke. For decades now…

Why the Rugby Australia settlement is the most Christian thing Israel Folau has done

9 December 2019 12:00 pm

So, the Folau/Rugby Australia dispute has ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. Many commentators are dissatisfied because…

Tories benefit from no-show at chaotic TV debate as election enters final days

9 December 2019 7:49 am

Believe it or not, there was yet another televised election debate tonight, this time on Channel 4, called the ‘Everything…

Fembots go feral on Screw-up Spice

9 December 2019 5:00 am

As her ABC documentary Silent No More attracts increasing heat, Tracey Spicer has reportedly retreated from public life.   It’s impossible…

The 15 Scottish seats that could decide the general election

8 December 2019 8:01 pm

For at least a generation — something we define loosely up here — Scottish hacks have been trying to interest…

Gold Coast Young LNPers: pinheads, but racists? No

8 December 2019 7:15 pm

As a student going through high school in the 1990s in Sydney’s Western suburbs, I’d hear pretty much every day…

Never mind Big Pharma and Big Oil – watch out for Big Uni

8 December 2019 5:30 pm

Climate alarmists and Corbynistas (the former increasingly a front organisation for the latter) often put the word ‘Big’ in front…

Call that a public service cut?

8 December 2019 4:33 pm

So we have the long-anticipated reform of the federal public service in Australia. Sort of. There are fewer departments, but…

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NSW Liberals’ secret revolution

8 December 2019 2:01 pm

In the 75-year history of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party, there has never been more factional…

There are only two likely outcomes to this election

7 December 2019 9:38 pm

There are, as I say in the Sun this morning, two possible outcomes to this election: a Tory majority or…

Only Brexit voters can save Nigel Farage from himself now

7 December 2019 6:00 pm

Nigel Farage last painted himself into a corner at the end of the 2015 general election. Now he has done…

The leaders debate was revealing, but hasn’t turned the tide

7 December 2019 10:29 am

In Friday night’s final TV debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson, neither leader landed a sucker punch on the…

This is the most important election in modern history – so vote, and vote Tory

7 December 2019 9:00 am

Next week, voters will decide the future of the government, of Brexit, and perhaps of the Union. Jeremy Corbyn has…

Portrait of the week: Terror in London, Trump in London and a resignation in Malta

7 December 2019 9:00 am

Home Usman Khan, aged 28, out of prison on licence after serving eight years of a 16-year sentence for preparing…