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Grifters, spivs, and thieves

25 July 2026 1:44 am

They’ve taken all our money in the ACT

A Coup-ee from Canberra

25 July 2026 1:14 am

Recent discussion at the Labor National Conference has revived debate about an Australian republic. Much of that debate focuses on…

Multiculturalism is a crisis of self

25 July 2026 12:57 am

How a loss of self-confidence causes cultural dilution

The Odyssey: the film that launched a thousand tweets

24 July 2026 10:53 pm

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has attracted a lot of attention for its DEI casting. Elon Musk is especially aggrieved and taken…

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the ABC, and the Celebration Parallax

24 July 2026 10:27 pm

First you insist something isn’t happening, declare them evil for noticing it, and then celebrate it openly once you feel confident it’s too late to reverse

Bronze statues are not threatening Australia’s future

24 July 2026 1:43 pm

The Australian Labor Party National Conference has forgotten the problems facing ordinary Australians

The standard you walk past

24 July 2026 1:27 pm

Seriousness is not a quality people carry around with them. It is a response to an environment

Vikki Campion’s warning: Mess with Barnaby and meet your match

22 July 2026 10:11 pm

People have been bagging out Barnaby Joyce for rousing on his dog while doing an interview on an iPhone on…

Australian ‘gun’ culture?

22 July 2026 8:41 pm

Bob Katter: I can think of nothing more fundamentally Australian than teaching your kids or grandkids to go camping, fishing, and hunting

Inflation, politics, and Australia’s lost decade

22 July 2026 11:57 am

There are no votes in austerity or industry reform

The prosperity paradox

22 July 2026 1:28 am

We have built an entire culture around the elimination of discomfort

Pilbara strike exposes union

22 July 2026 1:10 am

The first major protected industrial action at BHP’s Pilbara iron ore operations in decades

Waiting for the counter-reformation

22 July 2026 12:51 am

The greatest institutional comeback in history has a documented method, and yet none of our dying institutions has referred to it

What if small businesses went on strike against Labor?

21 July 2026 1:42 pm

Small businesses are hurting (and closing) under Labor’s federal and state policies

A hub for division

21 July 2026 11:49 am

The Social Cohesion Education Hub dangerously misses the mark on antisemitism

Australia must engage with the man Iranians are calling for

20 July 2026 2:20 pm

Engaging Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is not choosing Iran’s next government. It is recognising the most credible path from terrorist rule to the ballot box

We have not lost the knowledge. We have lost the nerve…

20 July 2026 1:12 pm

A country that cannot measure competence cannot build anything that matters

One Nation polling proves ‘The Establishment’ can’t be trusted

20 July 2026 12:49 pm

The attacks keep coming for One Nation from both sides of politics and the media. Yet amid last week’s claims…

The twilight of the radical Net Zero agenda

20 July 2026 10:38 am

And yet political elites of the left, including many Liberal and National Party Parliamentarians, continue to promote the climate con

Sixty years of hurt and seven Prime Ministers

20 July 2026 1:00 am

Andy Burnham has conquered Westminster, but government requires more than popularity, localism and Northern Soul

Why OpenAI and Anthropic will never see Wall Street

19 July 2026 12:08 pm

Chinese AI models have sparked concern about the affordability of American-made models and sent AI stocks reeling

Multiculturalism and social cohesion

19 July 2026 9:06 am

In addition to investigating and making recommendations to confront antisemitism, the Royal Commission established by the Commonwealth Labor government is…

A beautiful sight during the beautiful game

19 July 2026 8:15 am

Patriotism is the natural cure for racism

What did I miss?

18 July 2026 8:26 pm

Australia’s political week in fast-forward

Stranger, which galaxy are you from?

17 July 2026 12:00 pm

When was the last time politicians asked Australians what they think?